Antoine Boyer’s Brilliant Version of “The Sound of Silence”

Music • Views: 19,196

YouTube

The Sound of Silence (Paul Simon), arranged by Antoine Boyer. This the second single of the album “Caméléon Waltz” ➡️https://fanlink.to/bJtP

Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/antoineboyer?fan_landing=true
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/antoineboyermusic/?ref=hl
Website : http://www.antoineboyermusic.com
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/antoineboyermusic/

Label : Viavox Production
Distribution : L’autre distribution

Jump to bottom

450 comments
1
TarHellion  Dec 11, 2022 • 4:32:10pm

Panthers play their best game of the season and win on the road for the first time since last November. Still in the division title hunt! And, yes, the Brady humiliation is completed in San Fran! It was a good day.

2
Dopamine Fish  Dec 11, 2022 • 4:33:19pm

re: #1 TarHellion

Panthers play their best game of the season and win on the road for the first time since last November. Still in the division title hunt! And, yes, the Brady humiliation is completed in San Fran! It was a good day.

And the Vikings lost to the freakin’ Detroit Lions. Ya love to see it.

3
TarHellion  Dec 11, 2022 • 4:37:38pm

Been a wild sports week - from Croatia beating Brazil to Morocco beating Portugal to the Kane shank against France to the Texans beating choking against the Cowboys. Oh, well, nothing is perfect.

4
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 11, 2022 • 4:40:20pm

Sad and predictable.

5
Barefoot Grin  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:07:57pm

Thank you. This version of “Sound of Silence” is just bonkers good.

6
TarHellion  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:11:29pm

Plastics

7
gocart mozart  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:13:38pm
8
Charles Johnson  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:19:25pm
9
Hecuba's daughter  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:23:11pm

re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg

Sad and predictable.

[Embedded content]

Trump — you mean the prisoner you ignored during the period of his incarceration while you were President? The one arrested when you were President and you did nothing to help him out? That prisoner? I wonder who is writing his “truths”. Surely he’s not posting himself?

As to the Twitter Trump — it may have been a lizard who recently suggested that Elon’s hostility toward Democrats arises because we don’t shower him with the adulation that he receives from MAGAts. It seems as though this may be source of the narcissist’s issues: Democrats tend not to be as supportive (in general) of the wealthy. We* want to provide benefits to the poor and working class and middle classes— and raise taxes on those who can afford it. Many D legislators fail on this front but our party created Social Security and Medicare and the CRA and VRA and pushes for equality, rather than worshiping at the feet of the billionaire class. He believes that we all owe him special deference; that he is superior and all who won’t acknowledge his genius must be destroyed. It is people like him who led to the French revolution.

*”We” especially excludes Sinema and Manchin.

10
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:26:23pm
11
The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:26:50pm

re: #7 gocart mozart

#FauciDerangementSydrome

12
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:29:21pm
13
nines09  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:30:03pm

In Phoenixville Pa last night. Phoenixville Firebird.
Good drink, music, crowds and a big ‘ol warm fire.

14
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:30:13pm

re: #10 darthstar

I know I’m just being paranoid. The firebox is about 300lbs of metal sitting inside a shell of fire brick and concrete. The nearest flammable thing to it is my breath.

15
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:31:06pm

re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth

Pop it open and find out there were a couple of drunken engineers who decided to go for a joyride.

16
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:32:18pm

re: #14 darthstar

I know I’m just being paranoid. The firebox is about 300lbs of metal sitting inside a shell of fire brick and concrete. The nearest flammable thing to it is my breath.

When my BIL/SIL updated their fireplace the guy who did it fucked up and a fire started in the wall behind the brick. They caught it before the entire house burned down. Lots of smoke damage but no actual damage.

Paranoia is a good thing.

17
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:34:57pm

re: #16 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Jesus. I hope they sued the guy for the shoddy work.

18
The Pie Overlord!  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:36:41pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

My living room did not look like that! The shag carpet was green.

19
gocart mozart  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:38:12pm
20
teleskiguy  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:39:54pm

I was up at Monarch Ski Area this weekend hawking our skiing wares. Several Colorado-based ski and snowboard companies (including the one I work for) offered free demos (try our stuff on snow!) yesterday and today. Almost a half dozen folks came back and asked “How do I buy this stuff?”

You can briefly see me at the beginning of this short vid getting ready to ski down a steep run to be videoed and photographed (hopefully footage coming soon). You can also hear me whistle loudly to signal our photographer/videographer.

instagram.com

21
Charles Johnson  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:42:57pm
22
teleskiguy  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:44:19pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

So he’s turning Twitter into LiveJournal? I mean, LiveJournal worked out *so well* and all…

23
Charles Johnson  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:45:21pm
24
mmmirele  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:47:26pm

re: #18 The Pie Overlord!

My living room did not look like that! The shag carpet was green.

My family moved into a new house in 1974 with wood paneled walls and green shag carpet. My parents got a dark green upholstered set of what I now call 1970s middle class aspirational furniture and parked it in the living room, where we kids were not supposed to go. The couches and chairs have since gone on to be with their Louis XIV forebears, but an endtable and coffee table are still in my possession nearly a half-century later. Heavy as hell and virtually indestructible.

25
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:48:24pm
26
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:49:48pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

27
Charles Johnson  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:51:25pm

I’m a stubborn motherfucker and I don’t like being bullied into decisions, so I’m not planning to bail on Twitter just yet. But I’m also on:

mastodon.social - Green_Footballs
counter.social - Green_Footballs
post.news - Green_Footballs

Also on another network currently under development, soon to be announced.

28
Amory Blaine  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:51:46pm

The country we live in now, this kinda stuff just gets memory holed NBD

29
retired cynic  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:51:58pm

I have been gone all day to a Christmas potluck so I don’t know if this was posted. But Jen Rubin put together what we here all want (I think) as far as SCOTUS is concerned.

There is a path to save the Supreme Court from itself
wapo.st (FREE LINK)

30
mmmirele  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:52:45pm

re: #22 teleskiguy

So he’s turning Twitter into LiveJournal? I mean, LiveJournal worked out *so well* and all…

I seem to recall that LiveJournal got hoovered up by the Russians. Is that anyone else’s memory?

I’m going to share this lovely picture from Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, Tokyo, that I took a month ago. Man, cellphone cameras do some really nice work.

I couldn’t have asked for better weather
31
Patricia Kayden  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:53:47pm

re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg

Whelan was in a Russian prison for 2 years while Trump was in the White House. What the hell is he lying about now?

32
The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:53:55pm
33
teleskiguy  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:57:53pm

I’ve given five private lessons for telemark skiing during our demo days for people who have never telemark skied before, three at Arapahoe Basin last weekend and two today at Monarch Mountain. Four of them pulled off a telemark turn or five.

34
Barefoot Grin  Dec 11, 2022 • 5:58:51pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Just enjoying some fondue in the next room.

35
William Lewis  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:05:53pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Shudder.

I’ll stick to nice scandinavian modern, thank you.

36
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:11:12pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

I’m a stubborn motherfucker and I don’t like being bullied into decisions, so I’m not planning to bail on Twitter just yet. But I’m also on:

mastodon.social - Green_Footballs
counter.social - Green_Footballs
post.news - Green_Footballs

Also on another network currently under development, soon to be announced.

Looking forward to your new endeavor!

I’m still trying to figure out what passes for the User Interface in all three listed social media. I was able to find and follow you in both Counter and Mastodon as “Green_Footballs” without problems.

However in Post.News searching for “Green_Footballs”, “Charles Johnson”, and “Green’ did not find you. However, searching for “Footballs” brought joy to Mudville.
And yes, you were listed as Green_Footballs and Charles Johnson.

Until proven otherwise, I am assuming “Operator Headspacing Error” aka pebcak. But just to let you know.

38
Charles Johnson  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:14:41pm

Post.news is buggy as fuck right now. Seems kind of half-baked, tbh. I guess it’s nice that you can compose posts in a rich text editor like Medium’s, but they have a long way to go.

39
mmmirele  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:16:27pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Post.news is buggy as fuck right now. Seems kind of half-baked, tbh. I guess it’s nice that you can compose posts in a rich text editor like Medium’s, but they have a long way to go.

I found you by searching “Charles Johnson” (without quotes) but it also brought up a lot of people, most of whom were not named “Charles” even if they did have the last name of “Johnson.”

40
retired cynic  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:17:13pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

I’m a stubborn motherfucker and I don’t like being bullied into decisions, so I’m not planning to bail on Twitter just yet. But I’m also on:

mastodon.social - Green_Footballs
counter.social - Green_Footballs
post.news - Green_Footballs

Also on another network currently under development, soon to be announced.

I’m waiting until you get your project developed before I jump. I’m already getting messages on way too many apps as it is. Twitter still works to follow good peeps and cat pictures, so I am happy!

41
teleskiguy  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:17:24pm

Got a new sticker for my skis. Dude from Never Summer Industries (highly respected snowboard company based in Denver) gave me this.

42
Charles Johnson  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:17:37pm
43
Captain Ron  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:18:26pm

re: #39 mmmirele

I found you by searching “Charles Johnson” (without quotes) but it also brought up a lot of people, most of whom were not named “Charles” even if they did have the last name of “Johnson.”

You can call me Ray — Raymond J Johnson Jr

44
A Three Hour Tour  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:19:58pm

re: #30 mmmirele

I seem to recall that LiveJournal got hoovered up by the Russians. Is that anyone else’s memory?

I’m going to share this lovely picture from Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, Tokyo, that I took a month ago. Man, cellphone cameras do some really nice work.

[Embedded content]

Yep. The Russians acquiring LiveJournal is why I abandoned it years ago. It was so long ago that I no longer remember the password to my account and I no longer have the e-mail address with which I signed up for it.

It does provide a window into my post-9/11 pre-Obama self.

45
Dopamine Fish  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:20:25pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Forcing your pronouns upon others when they didn’t ask

Um… wut? I’m not allowed to tell you how I would like to be addressed? Fuck you, you sanctimonious asshole.

46
Charles Johnson  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:20:59pm
47
teleskiguy  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:21:52pm

Elmo’s descent into outright far right fascism is very scary. And he truly thinks he’s being some kind of centrist independent because no one around him will tell him otherwise.

48
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:21:56pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

Results for “@green_footballs” (0)
Results for “green_footballs” (0)

Results for “Charles Johnson” (50)

Profile Image
Charles Johnson

Results for “footballs” (1)

Profile Image
Charles Johnson

I guess that one of my talents appears to be finding walls by running into them…

“Is that it?”
“No. That’s a wall.”
“It could be disguised.”
“You’re not very good at looking for things, are you?”
“I’m good at looking for walls. Look, I found another one.”
― Derek Landy, Kingdom of the Wicked

49
William Lewis  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:22:51pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

I’m a stubborn motherfucker and I don’t like being bullied into decisions, so I’m not planning to bail on Twitter just yet. But I’m also on:

mastodon.social - Green_Footballs
counter.social - Green_Footballs
post.news - Green_Footballs

Also on another network currently under development, soon to be announced.

I can understand. I’ve always tended to only really “be” on one at a time so while I may read, say, twitter or look at Instagram, the only one I use right now is Mastodon. It’s an annoying UI to put it nicely but I can post my pictures and even get one or two favorites for them.

50
A Three Hour Tour  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:24:07pm

re: #47 teleskiguy

Elmo’s descent into outright far right fascism is very scary. And he truly thinks he’s being some kind of centrist independent because no one around him will tell him otherwise.

And he doesn’t have the excuse of immediate post-9/11 trauma driving him to embrace fascism.

51
Florida Panhandler  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:27:13pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

The Elon Meltdown will be happening in real time this whole week. Stay tuned.

He will be forced to sell the rest of his Tesla shares to pay for this Twitter debacle.

He will be out as Tesla CEO early in 2023.

52
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:31:48pm

Interesting thread. (No one here will be surprised.)

53
teleskiguy  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:33:17pm

re: #51 Florida Panhandler

I very rarely tap the heart icon (the LGF “like” as it were) but I did for this one because this is a pretty bold prediction. And I hope it comes true. Elmo needs a reckoning.

54
The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:34:40pm

re: #51 Florida Panhandler

The Elon Meltdown will be happening in real time this whole week. Stay tuned.

He will be forced to sell the rest of his Tesla shares to pay for this Twitter debacle.

He will be out as Tesla CEO early in 2023.

🙏

55
Dopamine Fish  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:36:09pm

Saint Elon the Magnificent’s fuckery claims a big one.

56
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:38:11pm

re: #51 Florida Panhandler

The Elon Meltdown will be happening in real time this whole week. Stay tuned.

He will be forced to sell the rest of his Tesla shares to pay for this Twitter debacle.

He will be out as Tesla CEO early in 2023.

The coming year certainly holds the promise of changes at Tesla.

Elon forced to sell off his shares is one. (Although he is using a bunch of other people’s money in purchasing Twitter.)

Pushing Elon out of Tesla management is another.

The shredding of the Tesla market is a third. It will be interesting to see if the rwnj’s migrate onto Teslas and away from their coal-rolling pickups. As progressives migrate to competitor’s electronic vehicles. And I suspect that various national authorities are going to exhibit less tolerance in ignoring Tesla’s ongoing accidents and failures.

57
William Lewis  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:40:30pm

re: #55 Dopamine Fish

Saint Elon the Magnificent’s fuckery claims a big one.

Thanks for the info, followed him.

58
Dopamine Fish  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:40:37pm

re: #56 ckkatz

The shredding of the Tesla market is a third. It will be interesting to see if the rwnj’s migrate onto Teslas and away from their coal-rolling pickups.

They won’t. No matter how much they love Saint Elon, it is still an article of faith in the right-wing religion that Global Warming Is Not A Thing (tm), and that their patriotic duty is to buy the biggest, heaviest, most gas-guzzling vehicle imaginable (no matter how impractical it is for their situation) in order to pwn as many libs as possible.

59
Dangerman  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:41:30pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

60
Mike Lamb  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:42:37pm

re: #45 Dopamine Fish

Um… wut? I’m not allowed to tell you how I would like to be addressed? Fuck you, you sanctimonious asshole.

Does he go after doctors who ensure they are addressed as such?

61
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:43:09pm

re: #58 Dopamine Fish

They won’t. No matter how much they love Saint Elon, it is still an article of faith in the right-wing religion that Global Warming Is Not A Thing (tm), and that their patriotic duty is to buy the biggest, heaviest, most gas-guzzling vehicle imaginable (no matter how impractical it is for their situation) in order to pwn as many libs as possible.

So basically, chasing away existing customer base while appealing to a group that will never buy his product. Certainly fits his method of operating.

62
Dopamine Fish  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:44:20pm

re: #60 Mike Lamb

Does he go after doctors who ensure they are addressed as such?

I just don’t get why this is such a big problem for these kinds of assholes. Who cares how you feel about non-traditional gender identities? Just respect people for who they are, and call them by the names they want to be called. It’s that fucking simple. I’m surprised this thin-skinned onion hasn’t started banning people who call him Elmo.

63
Dopamine Fish  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:44:50pm

re: #61 ckkatz

So basically, chasing away existing customer base while appealing to a group that will never buy his product. Certainly fits his method of operating.

Yes, there’s a definite trend shaping up here, isn’t there?

64
Dangerman  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:48:53pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

I’m a stubborn motherfucker and I don’t like being bullied into decisions, so I’m not planning to bail on Twitter just yet. But I’m also on:

mastodon.social - Green_Footballs
counter.social - Green_Footballs
post.news - Green_Footballs

Also on another network currently under development, soon to be announced.

Do Not say “in two weeks”//

65
Joe Bacon  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:50:10pm

re: #62 Dopamine Fish

I just don’t get why this is such a big problem for these kinds of assholes. Who cares how you feel about non-traditional gender identities? Just respect people for who they are, and call them by the names they want to be called. It’s that fucking simple. I’m surprised this thin-skinned onion hasn’t started banning people who call him Elmo.

Well this hatred of LGBTQ+ people is stoked by none other than right wing Pulpit Pimps who insist that they and only they know what The Big G’s will is and they will force their garbage on the rest of us.

66
Dopamine Fish  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:52:36pm

re: #65 Joe Bacon

Well this hatred of LGBTQ+ people is stoked by none other that right wing Pulpit Pimps who insist that they and only they know what The Big G’s will is and they will force their garbage on the rest of us.

Yeah, I know. It’s just so frustrating to me. The old adage of Christianity is supposed to be, “Love the sinner, hate the sin.” American Christians don’t know how to do that; they can’t separate the sin from the sinner, so they’re all on board with hating anyone they regard as “sinners” because they think that’s what White American Jesus has commanded them to do. It’s so fucking stupid, but it’s everywhere, and my puny little voice doesn’t seem to matter against the onslaught of bulkshit from the pulpit pimps at the top.

67
Mike Lamb  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:55:02pm

re: #62 Dopamine Fish

I just don’t get why this is such a big problem for these kinds of assholes. Who cares how you feel about non-traditional gender identities? Just respect people for who they are, and call them by the names they want to be called. It’s that fucking simple. I’m surprised this thin-skinned onion hasn’t started banning people who call him Elmo.

Oh, I fully agree. Being upset that a person wants to ensure a fundamental aspect of their life is known and respected is a sign of a sociopath.

68
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:56:26pm

re: #48 ckkatz

69
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:56:55pm

re: #55 Dopamine Fish

Saint Elon the Magnificent’s fuckery claims a big one.

[Embedded content]

I’ve been wondering how long it will be until Popehat bails.

70
Joe Bacon  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:58:10pm

re: #66 Dopamine Fish

Yeah, I know. It’s just so frustrating to me. The old adage of Christianity is supposed to be, “Love the sinner, hate the sin.” American Christians don’t know how to do that; they can’t separate the sin from the sinner, so they’re all on board with hating anyone they regard as “sinners” because they think that’s what White American Jesus has commanded them to do. It’s so fucking stupid, but it’s everywhere, and my puny little voice doesn’t seem to matter against the onslaught of bulkshit from the pulpit pimps at the top.

I’ve had to deal with religious bigotry all of my life whether it was in school, college, at work, or when I tried to socialize with Christians who made it clear they considered me a heathen going to hell. Doesn’t matter what flavor of Christianity it is because the hate always seeps out.

And what really hurts is seeing how right wing Jesus infected all of my family except Mom and Dad. Dealing with their hate, dealing with their intolerance and especially seeing how they totally embrace anything labeled with an R. Oh and they are also totally under the spell of Ayn Rand in their hatred of the government.

71
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 6:59:55pm

re: #69 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve been wondering how long it will be until Popehat bails.

Apparently he also runs a masthead.social account.

From his twitter feed -
Popehat
@Popehat
Mostly Ken White. I do the RICO. masthead.social
Los Angeles popehat.substack.com

72
Dopamine Fish  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:01:19pm

re: #70 Joe Bacon

Of course, you know my story. I was one of those religious bigots, until I met some “liberal Christians” at college who taught me that there was another way to live, a way that didn’t involve being a paranoid slave to fear every waking moment. (I should really send my California pastor friend a card for helping rescue me from that hellscape.) What’s depressing to me is watching my otherwise intelligent and capable father, a leader in his professional field, degrade himself into a drooling QAnon moron because he is a slave to right-wing groupthink and he can’t apply critical thinking to areas other than his work.

73
Romantic Heretic  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:01:27pm

re: #19 gocart mozart

Even in parody Jordan Peterson makes my teeth itch.

74
Florida Panhandler  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:06:58pm

re: #63 Dopamine Fish

Yes, there’s a definite trend shaping up here, isn’t there?

Elon is desperate… Simply desperate to be seen as cool. But he gets bored. See his personal female relationships to serve as example of this character trait.

Previously his initial tendency was in service of getting to Mars. Getting to Mars take actual science, actual facts and actual research and engineering. This got boring. -especially as the $$$ Billions came rolling in.

Now Elon is fully on board with a new crowd to impress- the 4Chan 8Kun /whatever alt-right nut job fan site exists this week. His new user base are currently enjoying their new useful idiot toy. But as his wealth disappears in the next year and Twitter begins to finally circle the drain they will abandon him as he has his women. The trick is to limit the damage $180 Billion in lost cause money combined with ruined ego can do in between now and the eventual Twitter investor hit squad coming for Elon in 2023.

75
SerialUpDinger  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:13:23pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

Cottontop Cactus – Echinocactus Polycephalus

Somewhat similar… I was so tempted to try and pull a bit of the cotton. The threat of those nasty needles convinced me not to.

76
Amory Blaine  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:13:46pm

4000 characters is a spammers dream.

77
Romantic Heretic  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:15:02pm

re: #70 Joe Bacon

Oh and they are also totally under the spell of Ayn Rand in their hatred of the government.

Remind them that Ms. Rand’s birth name was Eliza Rosenbaum. Also note to them that Ms. Rosenbaum’s philosophy is simple Marxism inverted so that bad is good and good is bad.

78
piratedan  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:15:10pm

re: #69 Eclectic Cyborg

i believe the death blow will likely be given by we rate dogs……

79
The Pie Overlord!  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:16:45pm

re: #77 Romantic Heretic

Remind them that Ms. Rand’s birth name was Eliza Rosenbaum. Also not to them that Ms. Rosenbaum’s philosophy is simple Marxism inverted so that bad is good and good is bad.

Also she was pro-choice.

80
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:18:26pm

re: #69 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve been wondering how long it will be until Popehat bails.

Also -

81
Belafon  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:18:50pm
82
FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:22:05pm
83
Dangerman  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:24:01pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

“Forcing pronouns” ffs

Do you accept people who change to a married last name?

84
Belafon  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:24:12pm

re: #52 ckkatz

One thing I disagree with: the people who know what Taibbi and Weiss are doing also know that Republicans and the Supreme Court are trying to impose theocracy.

I also think the young fascists are so visible because they used to get drowned out by more moderate young people, but a large part of that group has swung left, leaving them more exposed. They also have more fascist support groups from older conservatives.

85
Joe Bacon  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:25:07pm

U.S. to announce fusion energy ‘breakthrough’

Scientists hit a key milestone in the quest to create abundant zero-carbon power through nuclear fusion. But they still have a long way to go.

The Department of Energy plans to announce Tuesday that scientists have been able for the first time to produce a fusion reaction that creates a net energy gain — a major milestone in the decades-long, multibillion dollar quest to develop a technology that provides unlimited, cheap, clean power.

washingtonpost.com

Note—back in the 70s Dad was a part of Admiral Rickover’s team at the Shippingport PA Nuclear plant and they built and test ran a breeder reactor based on Thorium which is unable to be used to make nuclear weapons. Their experiment succeeded and created more thorium after 2 years of operation. It was on track to create more fuel than it used…and then Pruneface Reagan killed the project…

86
Dangerman  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:25:33pm

re: #47 teleskiguy

Elmo’s descent into outright far right fascism is very scary. And he truly thinks he’s being some kind of centrist independent because no one around him will tell him otherwise.

He’s not “descending”

He was always this

He’s just revealing it publicly

Peeling back the layers one by one

87
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:31:06pm
88
Dangerman  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:32:00pm

re: #81 Belafon

[Embedded content]

do you call movie stars and musicians by their “birth” names?

89
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:32:46pm
90
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:33:43pm

re: #16 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

When my BIL/SIL updated their fireplace the guy who did it fucked up and a fire started in the wall behind the brick. They caught it before the entire house burned down. Lots of smoke damage but no actual damage.

Paranoia is a good thing.

We just stuck an insert in the existing box and ran a new flue up through the existing chimney. Still scares the fuck out of me. But these new wood burning inserts have a cool design - they have a catalytic design so they recirculate the smoke and ash to burn it instead of sending it straight up the chimney. I can get a 10-14 hour burn on one load of wood apparently. Going on three hours now on three pieces of wood that used to burn to coal in a half hour in the open fireplace. Nice warm red glow.

91
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:34:48pm
92
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:37:36pm

Just a guess, but I think Elon would be rather annoyed if I insisted on calling him Frankie.

93
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:38:27pm

So…peanut butter whiskey - sounds gross, I know…but some friends introduced us to it over the summer. Not bad on ice cream, obviously, and a really sweet thing to drink, but I finally thought of a way to make it tolerable. Put it in hot chocolate. Like a liquid Reese’s.

Ordered this for the missus at breakfast and was pleasantly surprised. Wouldn’t want to make a habit of it, but cold winter nights have a new friend.

94
Joe Bacon  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:38:51pm

re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg

Just a guess, but I think Elon would be rather annoyed if I insisted on calling him Frankie.

With each succeeding bird dropping he’s proving that he really is Sleazy E.

95
Hecuba's daughter  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:39:48pm

re: #47 teleskiguy

Elmo’s descent into outright far right fascism is very scary. And he truly thinks he’s being some kind of centrist independent because no one around him will tell him otherwise.

There is no reason to think he believes he’s a centrist independent. He’s a liar like Trump; we have no idea what he truly believes except in oligarchy; the rich shall inherit the earth and since he may be the wealthiest person (or 2nd wealthiest person), he will inherit all and the rest will be his slaves until a 21st Century Robespierre overthrows him and slaughters all who hold his views, and the world descends into total chaos (good wordle word!).

96
wrenchwench  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:39:50pm

re: #88 Dangerman

do you call movie stars and musicians by their “birth” names?

[Embedded content]

A lot of people would not use Cassius Clay’s new name when he changed it to Muhammad Ali.

97
Hecuba's daughter  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:40:48pm

re: #51 Florida Panhandler

The Elon Meltdown will be happening in real time this whole week. Stay tuned.

He will be forced to sell the rest of his Tesla shares to pay for this Twitter debacle.

He will be out as Tesla CEO early in 2023.

may it be so!

98
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:43:13pm

re: #90 darthstar

We just stuck an insert in the existing box and ran a new flue up through the existing chimney. Still scares the fuck out of me. But these new wood burning inserts have a cool design - they have a catalytic design so they recirculate the smoke and ash to burn it instead of sending it straight up the chimney. I can get a 10-14 hour burn on one load of wood apparently. Going on three hours now on three pieces of wood that used to burn to coal in a half hour in the open fireplace. Nice warm red glow.

My next door neighbor was something a firebug. Apparently he built a huge fire in the mass manufactured 1970’s concrete fireplace insert. The fire was so large that it lapped over and around the insert. And set the house’s wood frame on fire.

I was returning home when I noticed about a half dozen fire trucks around my house. Which kind of raised my blood pressure a bit And then saw the fire fighters clustered around the neighbor’s house. And my blood pressure returned to normal.

Fortunately, only a part of the framing around the fireplace and the associated aluminum siding was actually damaged. So the house remained fully inhabitable.

Iirc, one of the Super Bowl prelims was on the big screen tv in the family room. You could watch through the windows the firefighter running a hose against the fireplace. He would look for a second to verify that the hose was still aimed at the fireplace. He then would return his gaze to the football game.

99
Hecuba's daughter  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:43:36pm

re: #58 Dopamine Fish

They won’t. No matter how much they love Saint Elon, it is still an article of faith in the right-wing religion that Global Warming Is Not A Thing (tm), and that their patriotic duty is to buy the biggest, heaviest, most gas-guzzling vehicle imaginable (no matter how impractical it is for their situation) in order to pwn as many libs as possible.

You are so right. As another example, no matter how many times Trump praised vaccines, his base rejected them and now he has retreated on this front.

100
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:45:31pm

re: #66 Dopamine Fish

Yeah, I know. It’s just so frustrating to me. The old adage of Christianity is supposed to be, “Love the sinner, hate the sin.” American Christians don’t know how to do that; they can’t separate the sin from the sinner, so they’re all on board with hating anyone they regard as “sinners” because they think that’s what White American Jesus has commanded them to do. It’s so fucking stupid, but it’s everywhere, and my puny little voice doesn’t seem to matter against the onslaught of bulkshit from the pulpit pimps at the top.

That statement “love the sinner and hate the sin” is itself a hateful statement. Those who use it do not understand the person on the other side of that statement and why they are hurting them. “You’re gay? Well, that’s a sin but I love you.” (Unspoken part: If you don’t change who you are, you’re going to hell.) “You’re an atheist? That’s the unforgivable sin. It’s not me saying it, it’s the Bible. I love you but you’re going to hell and even God can’t save you.”

It never occurs to the Christian who uses the “love sinner, hate the sin” line just to use “love” and mind their own business on the rest. They are compelled to condemn people’s “sin” (who they are) because a book tells them to.

101
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:46:45pm
102
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:50:00pm

re: #98 ckkatz

I’m all about small fires, manageable fires. Don’t have any interest in testing the capacity of this insert. And actually am looking into having someone inspect the installation in the spring. We only burn about a half dozen fires a year, the Pacific Ocean keeps us around 55-65 most of the time anyway - occasional dips into the 40s…rarely see frost on the car. It’s mostly for aesthetics.

It’s nice having that warmth radiating across the living room right now though, I will say. Will have to pick up a couple more bundles of wood at the store soon. Xmas parties and shit, you know.

103
Dangerman  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:55:48pm

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That statement “love the sinner and hate the sin” is itself a hateful statement. Those who use it do not understand the person on the other side of that statement and why they are hurting them. “You’re gay? Well, that’s a sin but I love you.” (Unspoken part: If you don’t change who you are, you’re going to hell.) “You’re an atheist? That’s the unforgivable sin. It’s not me saying it, it’s the Bible. I love you but you’re going to hell and even God can’t save you.”

It never occurs to the Christian who uses the “love sinner, hate the sin” line just to use “love” and mind their own business on the rest. They are compelled to condemn people’s “sin” (who they are) because a book tells them to.

There may be a line or two that suggests it

There are also many other lines that are less “convenient”. theyre clear too..like you aren’t to be the judge of others, or something something casting stones etc..

Anyway it’s late and I’m toast

104
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:55:54pm

re: #102 darthstar

I’m all about small fires, manageable fires. Don’t have any interest in testing the capacity of this insert. And actually am looking into having someone inspect the installation in the spring. We only burn about a half dozen fires a year, the Pacific Ocean keeps us around 55-65 most of the time anyway - occasional dips into the 40s…rarely see frost on the car. It’s mostly for aesthetics.

It’s nice having that warmth radiating across the living room right now though, I will say. Will have to pick up a couple more bundles of wood at the store soon. Xmas parties and shit, you know.

I agree with you.

Building some sort of huge fire just to watch it burn, seemed like a lot of effort for very little return.

In my case, or at least fireplace, the terrible 1970’s mass prefab design basically sucks all the warm air out of the room whenever a fire is lit.

So, for my house, watching a fake fire on the tv next to the fireplace ends up being a lot warmer than an actual fire in the fireplace.

105
piratedan  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:56:19pm

next stage is that Elon and the Maganaughts drive anyone and everyone decent off his platform, advertisers flee and he turns it into a Trumpless Truth Social, other platforms thrive as twitter users find and help grow new platforms that are not as Nazi friendly. Those fascists can all talk to each other over there and make sure to give themselves all the “positive” reinforcement they crave and they stay in their fucking bubble unsatisfied as all the libs have left. Sure Twitter had its moments, but you had to cultivate your own audience, and be dedicated to block the idjits, bots, trolls and sea-lions from your stream.

Those folks at counter-social, mastodon and Post have probably heard oodles about what type of environment they need to provide in order to attract posters and advertisers… while getting loads of content for free by people who want to share and engage with other people in good faith.

106
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:57:03pm
107
Joe Bacon  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:57:04pm

Russia wanted to swap Paul Whelan for ‘assassin’ held in Germany

nordot.app

Will we hear this on 19th Century Fox?

Nope.

108
Thanos  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:57:47pm

I set up an account at Mastodon, @Tarkloon@mastodon.social

109
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:58:29pm
110
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 7:58:52pm

re: #108 Thanos

Followed!

111
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:02:20pm
112
William Lewis  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:07:14pm

re: #108 Thanos

I set up an account at Mastodon, @Tarkloon@mastodon.social

Followed.

113
Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:09:09pm

there are too many new places. I still haven’t tried mastodon. I have counter.social and post.news

114
BlueSpotinAL  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:11:32pm

For you computer guys who remember Bastard Operator From Hell, and other shenanigans:

115
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:12:04pm

re: #114 BlueSpotinAL

that’s funny

116
Sherlock Hound  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:12:15pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Post.news is buggy as fuck right now. Seems kind of half-baked, tbh. I guess it’s nice that you can compose posts in a rich text editor like Medium’s, but they have a long way to go.

I’m pissed at them because they considered accessibility “extra” for disabled people. We know full well that accessibility is 1) NOT optional in 2022, and 2) affects ALL aspects of a product and it can’t be tacked on afterwards in version 1.1 let alone 2.0.

(The cruel thing is that the disabled community will stay away from Post, and their CEO will explain to the NYT that “no disabled person uses our service so why should Post accommodate them?” I see this all the time with restaurants that won’t fix their lifts.)

117
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:12:53pm

re: #108 Thanos

Consider yourself stalked.

118
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:13:41pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Post.news is buggy as fuck right now. Seems kind of half-baked, tbh. I guess it’s nice that you can compose posts in a rich text editor like Medium’s, but they have a long way to go.

I looked at the invite link when they approved my account. Full of tracking cookies and shit. Decided to delete the invite.

119
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:14:03pm

There are a lot of twitter posts about tensions along the Serbian-Kosovo border. At this point it is difficult to tell what is real and what is Russian and Serbian troll’s. But NATO has had a readiness and reaction force deployed nearby for some time.

You may remember how the original go around in 1999 basically ended. (And yes, there was bombing and shooting involved prior to this video. But in the end…)

120
teleskiguy  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:15:47pm

re: #20 teleskiguy

The video’s gone. Sorry!

121
Sherlock Hound  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:18:25pm

re: #54 The GOP is a racist terrorist organization

🙏

And maybe SpaceX. Their president, Glynn Shotwell, was asked if Twitter would affect operations at the company.

“Absolutely not!”

SpaceX has had to be run by grownups. They’ve managed Elon. Perhaps they can dismanage him. Or send him on the Mars trip he’s always wanted!

122
sagehen  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:18:35pm

re: #96 wrenchwench

A lot of people would not use Cassius Clay’s new name when he changed it to Muhammad Ali.

The same thing happened to Lew Alcindor when he became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

123
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:20:04pm

re: #114 BlueSpotinAL

Hah!

I had a friend who was in Vietnam.

He said that one night the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) attacked his firebase. When the grunts set off the claymores they had evidentially been turned around and were facing the US troops.

(Apparently the NVA sent in sappers before the attack to clear attack paths. And the sappers had reversed each claymore they found rather than disconnecting them.)

After that they grunts painted a huge white dot on the back of each claymore. And when they saw that dot move….

124
Sherlock Hound  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:22:20pm

re: #69 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve been wondering how long it will be until Popehat bails.

Or Teri Kanefield, who has been spending more time on FB.

125
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:25:53pm
126
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:27:04pm

re: #55 Dopamine Fish

I think a critical problem for Mastadon is using “@” as a signifier in front of a user name.

If I come across that, and definitely if most websites come across that (including LGF), the assumption is that the handle is a Twitter handle.

Mastadon really needed to come up with a new signifier.

127
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:28:59pm

Hmm, speaking of Qatar…

128
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:37:31pm
129
Moe Avattar  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:38:16pm

re: #85 Joe Bacon

U.S. to announce fusion energy ‘breakthrough’

Scientists hit a key milestone in the quest to create abundant zero-carbon power through nuclear fusion. But they still have a long way to go.

The Department of Energy plans to announce Tuesday that scientists have been able for the first time to produce a fusion reaction that creates a net energy gain — a major milestone in the decades-long, multibillion dollar quest to develop a technology that provides unlimited, cheap, clean power.
…

Note—back in the 70s Dad was a part of Admiral Rickover’s team at the Shippingport PA Nuclear plant and they built and test ran a breeder reactor based on Thorium which is unable to be used to make nuclear weapons. Their experiment succeeded and created more thorium after 2 years of operation. It was on track to create more fuel than it used…and then Pruneface Reagan killed the project…

The funny thing is, Reagan supplied a lot of the early funding for fusion research and didn’t know it - he thought it was going to the SDI / “Star Wars” program, but DoE scientists used those huge lasers for something else.

130
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:40:55pm

re: #128 darthstar

Related: My first wife was writing her master’s thesis on a word processor I had — propietary thing - pre-286 era. It crashed on her. We were able to recover the data but it was one big unformatted ASCII file. Total fucking mess.

131
Dr Lizardo  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:49:03pm

re: #108 Thanos

Followed.

132
ckkatz  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:52:02pm

I have not yet had a chance to check this out …

133
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 11, 2022 • 8:53:37pm

re: #130 darthstar

I remember in high school, before word processors regularly autosaved, I wrote out a lengthy paper that I neglected to save for around 40 minutes.

Then my computer froze and crashed.

Yep. Lesson learned…

134
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:05:57pm

re: #128 darthstar

I had a “system restore” floppy disk that said “no magnets.” I thumbtacked it to my cork board in my shop in Rota.

135
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:13:00pm

LOL!

136
Targetpractice  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:13:50pm

re: #89 ckkatz

[Embedded content]

Their one constant with every failed presidential election is blaming the media for the failure of their ratfucking campaign.

When Obama won in ‘08, they claimed the media covered for him by “covering up” stories about birth certificates and college transcripts.

When he won again in ‘12, they started again with accusing the media of perfidy, only now it was insisting that they’d kept a lid on “BENGHAZI!!!111”

Yet when Hillary lost in ‘16, they suddenly lost all interest in all the “scandals” that they’d spent every waking moment of the election upon, especially the Buttery Males that supposedly deserved time in federal prison.

137
Targetpractice  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:16:45pm

re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

LOL!

[Embedded content]

138
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:17:26pm
139
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:22:11pm

re: #88 Dangerman

Wholly crap, there are a bunch of the Night of the Living Brain Dead in that tweet by Greg Kelly.

140
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:23:30pm
141
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:25:34pm
142
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:34:01pm

re: #88 Dangerman

Musk is playing to the ignorant-right, who have all been convinced that SARS-Cov-2 originated in a lab in Wuhan.

There is no proof of that claim, but it is now gospel in the minds of know-nothings.

Coronaviruses are endemic on this planet. Exactly why SARS-Cov-2 was first *detected* in Wuhan may simply be down to luck - the virus could have started anywhere and Wuhan is a major trading center.

143
Belafon  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:34:06pm
144
Belafon  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:39:48pm
145
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:40:53pm

re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

LOL!

It’s worth getting to 12…

146
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:41:48pm

I’ve prattled on at length about worldview collapse, but even if I am boring people I think we have to recognize what is going on.

When a society’s beliefs (about itself and others and the world at large) are undermined, humans will look for others to blame, or scapegoats, for anything that will explain how they were mislead/duped/fooled.

The US is called a “first world” nation but unlike other first world nations we have not completed the transition away from our hyper-religious, somewhat isolated ideas of ourselves.

But the axe of modernity has been picking at the foundations of the old beliefs for quite some time now.

And with more and more Americans no longer aligning themselves with the traditional American religious ideas, our society is increasingly difficult to identify (pigeonhole) in regards to what we believe.

This new pluralistic result is really scaring people, some people anyway.

The need to blame China for anything (not just COVID-19) is increasingly becoming the forefront of American politics. Everyone wants to compare to China, including Biden.

This is yet another manifestation of our worldview collapse. For several generations now we’ve been told that we are number one, the best, the biggest, etc.

But the post-Mao China has slowly, faultingly, been moving to the top of the list of the world’s dominant nations.

And this scares some Americans.

And demagogues (and Elon has turned into one) will exploit every fear they can.

147
darthstar  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:43:01pm

re: #142 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Musk is playing to the ignorant-right, who have all been convinced that SARS-Cov-2 originated in a lab in Wuhan.

Is he punching down or is he flattering up?

148
ericblair  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:52:47pm

re: #143 Belafon

Revolutionary therapy clears girl’s incurable cancer

Cancer therapy is moving incredibly rapidly; every year there are significant new treatments like this. We are moving into the medical equivalent of software bug fixes.

If you get diagnosed, do yourself a favor and ignore any mortality data that’s over a year or two old, because it’s probably completely out of date.

149
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 11, 2022 • 9:53:20pm

Whomp whomp.

Ukraine war: Exiled governor reports strike on ‘Wagner HQ’ (BBC)

Ukrainian forces have struck a headquarters of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, says the governor-in-exile of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.

Serhiy Haidai said a hotel where the group met in Kadiivka, Luhansk, had been hit with major losses.

—-

In the Kadiivka strike, Mr Haidai said Russia had suffered “significant losses” and he expected “at least 50%” of the surviving forces to die due to a lack of medical treatment.

(more)

150
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 11, 2022 • 10:05:15pm

re: #148 ericblair

I can already hear the wingnuts hitting their fainting couches because “gene therapy is an affront to God” or some such bullshit.

151
Hecuba's daughter  Dec 11, 2022 • 10:09:27pm

Par for Monday

Click to Reveal

Wordle 541 4/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

152
William Lewis  Dec 11, 2022 • 10:11:04pm

re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Whomp whomp.

Ukraine war: Exiled governor reports strike on ‘Wagner HQ’ (BBC)

—-

(more)

Oh, one can only hope this is true. I have no real problem with mercenaries as such, but if you are one, well, if you behave like Wagner, Karma’s a bi*ch.

153
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 11, 2022 • 10:20:33pm

Local weather in Scottsbluff, NE from the BBC: 3°C (38°F), wind 9mph from the WNW, clear.

bbc.com

154
Hecuba's daughter  Dec 11, 2022 • 10:26:06pm

re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg

I can already hear the wingnuts hitting their fainting couches because “gene therapy is an affront to God” or some such bullshit.

Not all wingnuts are religious fanatics, though all religious fanatics are wingnuts. Wingnuts may be racists who support overthrowing the government, but they don’t necessarily challenge progress in physics or biological science. They may even be atheists.

155
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 11, 2022 • 10:30:27pm

Narcissa Whitman’s [state historic] marker is on U.S. Highway 26 between Lisco and Broadwater, Nebraska. She and Eliza Spalding were the first white women to cross the American continent.

The one place I call home (Gering, Nebr. Courier)

{historic marker pictured)

Along U.S. Highway 26, west of Lisco, stands a state historical marker commemorating pioneer Narcissa Whitman.

For many years, I had a ritual whenever I drove west to visit my parents. As I passed that marker, I’d say out loud, “Narcissa, I’m home.”

On the return trip, I’d say, “Narcissa, I’ll be back.”

(more)

156
austin_blue  Dec 11, 2022 • 10:34:09pm

re: #54 The GOP is a racist terrorist organization

🙏

Maybe. It’ll depend on the vehicles built at the Southeast Austin factory in this coming year and how well they sell.

That’s the thing. If Twitter craters, he still has enough irons in the fire to make beaucoup bongo bucks.

SpaceX is a fantastically going concern. If the new Tesla models and his battery factories deliver economies of scale for wind and solar energy storage, he will be a God Emperor of Climate Change and a Savior of the World.

That is a no shit fact.

It is also a fact that he is a hugely awful Savior of the World, a truly, sometimes cluelessly, but often times blatantly Libertarian Dudebro without a clue about how economics of scale work.

The jury is obviously still out, but he scares the shit out of me. And yet, I still hope and pray he succeeds on the climate front.

157
I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 11, 2022 • 10:35:31pm

when the next Terminator film comes out, I’m routing for the machines.

158
Hecuba's daughter  Dec 11, 2022 • 10:37:37pm

re: #156 austin_blue

….
SpaceX is a fantastically going concern. If the new Tesla models and his battery factories deliver economies of scale for wind and solar energy storage, he will be a God Emperor of Climate Change and a Savior of the World.

That is a no shit fact.

It is also a fact that he is a hugely awful Savior of the World, a truly, sometimes cluelessly, but often times blatantly Libertarian Dudebro without a clue about how economics of scale work.

The jury is obviously still out, but he scares the shit out of me. And yet, I still hope and pray he succeeds on the climate front.

So maybe he is just the 21st Century Henry Ford, an evil anti-Semite and traitor who revolutionized manufacturing.

159
William Lewis  Dec 11, 2022 • 10:38:27pm

re: #156 austin_blue

.

The jury is obviously still out, but he scares the shit out of me. And yet, I still hope and pray he his company succeeds on the climate front.

He’s irrelevant to the success of the company making the tech. Arguably, he’s holding them back with his twitter shit and other ignorance. What we should hope for is that they throw his ass out the back door and he becomes the Howard Huges hermit that is his real destiny with the too much money he’ll still have.

160
austin_blue  Dec 11, 2022 • 10:41:32pm

re: #158 Hecuba’s daughter

So maybe he is just the 21st Century Henry Ford, an evil anti-Semite and traitor who revolutionized manufacturing.

Exactly. Henry also believed in ghosts and reincarnations and seances. And he was a rabid racist.

161
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 11, 2022 • 10:47:49pm

re: #157 I Would Prefer Not To

Once again we see Musk harkening to his longtermism.

He believes he is the smartest guy on the planet so he is the one who knows how the next million years should be for humans.

162
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 11, 2022 • 10:57:42pm

Temps are going to be well below normal Monday morning, all the way down to Cabo San Lucas:

163
austin_blue  Dec 11, 2022 • 11:08:08pm

re: #159 William Lewis

He’s irrelevant to the success of the company making the tech. Arguably, he’s holding them back with his twitter shit and other ignorance. What we should hope for is that they throw his ass out the back door and he becomes the Howard Huges hermit that is his real destiny with the too much money he’ll still have.

This is the biggest problem with people who are hating on the Muskrat. Keep in mind, I think the Muskrat is a Libertarian disaster. He is definitely NOT irrelevant to the success of the company making the Tech.

In every level of Agency, he is the driver of the Tech being made by his companies.

I believe that as far as Twitter is concerned, he is going to take a huge haircut because he’s a highly functional human on the Asberger’s spectrum who at a personal level doesn’t understand what social media means for tens of millions of people.

It’s not a business for them. It’s how they talk to each other.

Twitter will never make a huge amount of money from the Celtic musicians on SWMBO’s twitter feed. These are a group of professional and skilled amateurs, dedicated musicians, who love trading songs, gossip, upcoming fests, &c.

Yet that community absolutely needs Twitter, or an equivalent to survive.

164
sagehen  Dec 11, 2022 • 11:12:09pm

re: #163 austin_blue

I believe that as far as Twitter is concerned, he is going to take a huge haircut because he’s a highly functional human on the Asberger’s spectrum who at a personal level doesn’t understand what social media means for tens of millions of people.

If he loses every single penny he spent on Twitter, plus spending an equivalent amount before realizing it’ll never be profitable, plus 95% of the rest of his money…

He’ll still be absurdly wealthy.

There is zero chance that anything he says or does, or anything anybody else says about or does to him, will ever ever ever leave him in financial distress.

165
Sherlock Hound  Dec 11, 2022 • 11:12:37pm

re: #163 austin_blue

The disabled community, too. This is why Post has me so enraged.

166
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 11, 2022 • 11:15:56pm

re: #163 austin_blue

This is the biggest problem with people who are hating on the Muskrat. Keep in mind, I think the Muskrat is a Libertarian disaster. He is definitely NOT irrelevant to the success of the company making the Tech.

In every level of Agency, he is the driver of the Tech being made by his companies.

I believe that as far as Twitter is concerned, he is going to take a huge haircut because he’s a highly functional human on the Asberger’s spectrum who at a personal level doesn’t understand what social media means for tens of millions of people.

It’s not a business for them. It’s how they talk to each other.

Twitter will never make a huge amount of money from the Celtic musicians on SWMBO’s twitter feed. These are a group of professional and skilled amateurs, dedicated musicians, who love trading songs, gossip, upcoming fests, &c.

Yet that community absolutely needs Twitter, or an equivalent to survive.

Sooner or later an equivalent will come along. “Build it and they will come” goes the old trope.

If Mr. Musk continues platforming racists, Nazis, and other such characters, more people will leave in an accellerating arc. No amount of people saying “but my group needs Twitter” will convince those being harassed or threatened to stay.

Moreover, disabled groups are also being harassed on Twitter (sometimes dangerously so, such as those with epilepsy). They have a motivation to find another place and make it work, even if it’s not perfect.

If this goes on, Twitter will enter a fatal slide.

167
austin_blue  Dec 11, 2022 • 11:25:36pm

re: #165 Sherlock Hound

The disabled community, too. This is why Post has me so enraged.

Of course, and hundreds of other communities who need and deserve a voice and who don’t give a shit about Twitter’s need for profit. They are there for the comm. They don’t give a fuck about the Muskrat’s profit margin. Really, it’s the last thing on their minds.

And I think I’ve barked at clouds enough tonight.

Sweet dreams, be kind to each other, and have a lovely holiday season with multiple pig-out food sessions.

If you don’t gain 5 pounds over the Holidays, you just aren’t doing it right.

Talk at y’all tomorrow.

168
Captain Ron  Dec 11, 2022 • 11:35:39pm

YouTube

169
Sherlock Hound  Dec 11, 2022 • 11:59:03pm

re: #166 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m on @dmoisan@disabled.mastodon.social, but I haven’t checked it recently. Right now, there is no clear consensus yet on where the community goes. Some people have certainly moved.

170
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 12, 2022 • 12:20:34am

.


When you give into the holidays…as a classical musician



..

171
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 12:20:39am

re: #169 Sherlock Hound

I’m on @dmoisan@disabled.mastodon.social, but I haven’t checked it recently. Right now, there is no clear consensus yet on where the community goes. Some people have certainly moved.

I’m not on social media except specific sites like this one.

With the Betamax/VHS wars playing out over various new social media companies, I think I’ll sit back and wait to see how it shakes out before I choose to jump into a social media platform.

In the meantime, LOL

172
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 12:30:09am

re: #69 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve been wondering how long it will be until Popehat bails.

Looks like you called it :

173
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 12:31:54am

re: #169 Sherlock Hound

I went to try and follow you, but there seems to be some connectivity issues into the network. I suspect that maintenance activity may the culprit. I’ll try again later today.

174
William Lewis  Dec 12, 2022 • 12:43:07am

re: #173 ckkatz

I went to try and follow you, but there seems to be some connectivity issues into the network. I suspect that maintenance activity may the culprit. I’ll try again later today.

Yeah, I’m getting a 503 when I try to follow you too.

175
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 12:44:29am

From Post.News

176
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 12:59:14am

A thread on likely Russian military planning.

The sociopathic nature of this planning in most Western militaries is generally coupled with a strong effort to only send our children into battle for good reasons and to minimize risk where ever possible.

I have not seen much effort in that direction in the current Russian military.

177
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 1:00:02am

Siri, what do words mean?

178
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 1:00:03am
179
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 1:02:49am

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Reminds me of that long standing debate on twitter.

One guy would post- “When they send their trolls, they’re not sending their best.”
And someone else would respond “Sadly, they are.”

180
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 12, 2022 • 1:07:27am

.


Ella Fitzgerald - I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm [1958]




..

181
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 1:20:36am

Short thread on when the next Ukrainian offensive may occur. Basically, much of Ukraine has not yet frozen solidly enough. Which means lots of mud. That, in turn means that most vehicles cannot go very fast or far.

The expectation is that once the ground freezes sufficiently, the Ukrainians may retsart their offensives.

The Russian command seems to be aware of this. It is reportedly preparing a series of fortifications to the rear of current lines. And may retreat to them at the correct moment, defusing the Ukrainian offensive.

Some observers also believe that the current WW1 style offensive in Bakhmut is simply to keep the Ukrainians on the defensive. The fact that it is killing off thousands of Russian troops doesn’t seem to bother the Russian command.

Anyway, as I understand it, by the end of next week, Ukraine is expected to warm to above freezing through most of December. Which means the ground is not expected to freeze sufficiently for a Ukrainian offensive until January.

182
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 1:20:40am

re: #179 ckkatz

Reminds me of that long standing debate on twitter.

One guy would post- “When they send their trolls, they’re not sending their best.”
And someone else would respond “Sadly, they are.”

Yeah, what does this putative religion of “Wokeism” worship? How do they pray? Do they have rituals? How many gods? Are there holy days? Does it have saints or theologians? Do they pass a collection plate? Send missionaries to areas of the world which are “non-Wokeism?”

183
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 1:22:19am

No is yes.

184
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 1:28:25am

re: #182 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yeah, what does this putative religion of “Wokeism” worship? How do they pray? Do they have rituals? How many gods? Are there holy daya? Does it have saints or theologians? Do they pass a collection plate? Send missionaries to areas of the world which are “non-Wokeism?”

It looks to me that you have already put more thought and consideration into the troll’s claim than the troll did.

Interestingly, if one accepts the troll’s general thesis, your questions are very good follow through ones.

I rarely find trolls who actually are attempting to make a cogent or even consistent argument. And I doubt that this troll is any sort of exception.

I generally view these trolls as having lots of free time to waste and wanting to waste someone else’s as well. The old story about mud wrestling a pig often seems to apply here.

185
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 1:31:23am

Wow, this guy takes a hard-right into antisemitism in the last sentence. The rest is true, the conclusion is shyte.

Hey asshole, what happened before 1948?

Ever since Musk has opened up his libertarian free speech, this guy has been somewhere between Martin Luther and Hitler.

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

186
ericblair  Dec 12, 2022 • 1:56:30am

Being a former staff dude myself, authoritarians really, really underestimate international organization staff. The authoritarians are too lazy to pay attention to all the detail work, and invariably dismiss staff as weak little nobodies. Staff recruitment is usually pretty rigorous, the staff are pretty well qualified, and do a lot of analysis work. They know the rules and have got the receipts and can fuck you up if you blindly try to throw your weight around.

Some Elmo Smuk character tried to call out the UN World Food Programme last year, and promised to donate $6 billion in Tesla stock if they could give him a detailed plan on where it would all go. Being a proper staff, they sent him one, completed and coordinated. Um. So, Smuk donated around 5 million TSLA shares to…some unspecified charity. The WFP has apparently received $0.

187
Targetpractice  Dec 12, 2022 • 1:56:54am

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When you define a significant portion of your life by your religious beliefs and the influence they (and those who espouse them) have over you, it becomes impossible to believe such is not the rule for all others around you.

188
Captain Ron  Dec 12, 2022 • 2:01:31am

YouTube

189
Captain Ron  Dec 12, 2022 • 2:27:40am

Listening to “My Mix” on YouTube music videos. I keep saying I’ll go to bed when something ‘meh’ comes on. I said that to myself about 2 hours ago…

190
Captain Ron  Dec 12, 2022 • 2:37:31am

YouTube

I might pass out first.

191
Captain Ron  Dec 12, 2022 • 2:40:30am

re: #190 Captain Ron

Weird, the ‘larger’ button plays the video.

192
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 12, 2022 • 2:50:37am

Meh. Four.

NVVmWHBmaGc5dmJ3a2VQMk1ZdVh5M0ZIbTdxK0hiUmJMRndaYVBnVEp0Z3E3YTBacjFhK0hkUWVNeHNxTUpuVms5eUYrS0doRWk0RnZVeGRYeDNFWitUSnFIN2FDY0wwWHVKRlNDelZQZHRKeEdMZUZXSkFHYlJHUU5obHJWckFaSFZ3dzdWVFVPbUJRT1BsemhKaTF3PT06OqmBX+2A7NVrQ4S1jc3s3YI=

193
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 12, 2022 • 2:53:23am

re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Explain that? Michael Bay wannabe.

There. Explained.

194
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 3:04:06am

A blizzard warning has now been issued for my county. Currently the weather is freezing fog.

…BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 11 PM MST WEDNESDAY…

* WHAT…Blizzard conditions expected. Widespread total snow
accumulations of 6 to 12 inches, with localized heavier amounts.
Winds gusting between 50 go 60 mph.

* WHERE…Portions of panhandle Nebraska and southeast Wyoming.

* WHEN…From 5 PM this afternoon to 11 PM MST Wednesday.

* IMPACTS…Travel could be very difficult to impossible.
Widespread blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility.
The cold wind chills as low as 15 below zero could result in
hypothermia if precautions are not taken.

195
Alephnaught  Dec 12, 2022 • 3:04:55am

re: #21 Charles Johnson

I wonder if he’s starting to feel the heat from Mastodon. The default character limit to “toots” (Mastodon equivalent of tweet.) is 500 characters, but individual Mastodon servers can configure that limit higher if they want. As a result, I’ve seen the occasional single post on Mastodon that’s more the equivalent of a blog post than of a tweet.

Also, if Tumblr are serious about adding support for ActivityPub, (The protocol underlying services such as Mastodon) then their posts probably won’t have 500 character limit either.

196
piratedan  Dec 12, 2022 • 3:05:57am

since its something of a trend, in case there’s a need. I’ve opened up a piratedan7@mastodon.social account.

why give twitter the clicks, let them become a monster size truth social

197
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 3:22:12am

Comment on Twitter: Eve was framed.

198
TarHellion  Dec 12, 2022 • 3:29:25am

Tee shot hits the roof of a house, yet bounces back into play. Get the ball back with 30 yards of the green, then pitch it in for the birbie and a good way to start the week. Still no sun. Whenever it does return, we are going to be like those sightless cave creatures in The Descent. Happy Monday!

Click to Reveal

Wordle 541 3/6*

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

199
ericblair  Dec 12, 2022 • 3:34:37am

re: #195 Alephnaught

I wonder if he’s starting to feel the heat from Mastodon. The default character limit to “toots” (Mastodon equivalent of tweet.) is 500 characters, but individual Mastodon servers can configure that limit higher if they want. As a result, I’ve seen the occasional single post on Mastodon that’s more the equivalent of a blog post than of a tweet.

Also, if Tumblr are serious about adding support for ActivityPub, (The protocol underlying services such as Mastodon) then their posts probably won’t have 500 character limit either.

There was a story circulated about the developer who pushed for and coded the increased 280 character limit, when he was summarily fired by Msuk because of course he was. There was a lot of code review that needed to be done to ensure that the increase did not break anything, and I believe a lot of other updates were necessary to allow the system to handle the new size. Well, he’s gone, as is most of the Twitter staff, and Msuk wants this 5000 character increase done, which will probably be considerably more difficult. If he actually demands it Twitter is going down hard.

Msuk seems to idolize the basement code hacker, not actual software engineers. If you want undocumented unmaintainable code that does what no user actually requested and breaks everything else, that’s the way to go I suppose.

200
Ming5000  Dec 12, 2022 • 3:47:30am

re: #29 retired cynic

I have been gone all day to a Christmas potluck so I don’t know if this was posted. But Jen Rubin put together what we here all want (I think) as far as SCOTUS is concerned.

There is a path to save the Supreme Court from itself
wapo.st (FREE LINK)

I don’t think Rubin’s article had been posted before, so thanks. Good read.

201
Captain Ron  Dec 12, 2022 • 3:48:25am

Muckoff Dry Chain Lube works great for lubricating the hinge on my Carson flipper knife.

202
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 4:09:23am
203
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 4:14:50am

re: #199 ericblair

There was a story circulated about the developer who pushed for and coded the increased 280 character limit, when he was summarily fired by Msuk because of course he was. There was a lot of code review that needed to be done to ensure that the increase did not break anything, and I believe a lot of other updates were necessary to allow the system to handle the new size. Well, he’s gone, as is most of the Twitter staff, and Msuk wants this 5000 character increase done, which will probably be considerably more difficult. If he actually demands it Twitter is going down hard.

Msuk seems to idolize the basement code hacker, not actual software engineers. If you want undocumented unmaintainable code that does what no user actually requested and breaks everything else, that’s the way to go I suppose.

I am still convinced that Mr. Musk, like many large “l” Libertarians, is actually opposed to both free speech and freedom of the press. Considering he is richer than God, I can easily imagine him buying Twitter (after trolling about it) so he could break it and shut it down.

That reminds me how Mr. Theil financed the case to bankrupt Gawker, and went after Juanita Jean and Wonkette (a mistake since Wonkette was able to bring on the ACLU, and Gawker is now back).

204
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 4:21:24am

This looks like a threat.

205
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 4:30:09am

Off to a decent start.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 541 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

206
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:00:46am

re: #175 ckkatz

From Post.News

[Embedded content]

unfortunately there is no ‘safe’ or clean corner of a cesspool

there’s only ‘not as much shit over here’

207
ericblair  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:02:44am

re: #203 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I am still convinced that Mr. Musk, like many large “l” Libertarians, is actually opposed to both free speech and freedom of the press. Considering he is richer than God, I can easily imagine him buying Twitter (after trolling about it) so he could break it and shut it down.

That reminds me how Mr. Theil financed the case to bankrupt Gawker, and went after Juanita Jean and Wonkette (a mistake since Wonkette was able to bring on the ACLU, and Gawker is now back).

I really don’t think Musk is that self aware. He certainly subscribes to the narcissist view of free speech, which means that he can say anything he likes without repercussions or criticism and if that means that no one else has free speech he doesn’t care. If he wanted to shut Twitter down, he could have done that day one and not look like an idiot over and over again.

I agree with the view that I’ve seen in several places, that Musk’s obsession with cancelling and shadowbanning and “free speech” and all the rest is a coping mechanism for right wing nutjobs. They think that their views are so self evidently correct, but they also are aware that most people either don’t care or actively reject them. It can’t be their fault, they can’t be wrong, so something must be interfering with the transmission. Therefore, it must be their enemies who are actively conspiring to shut them up in hidden and not so hidden ways, and they must be figured out and stopped at all costs.

208
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:06:41am

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s a misleading chart. Many of these “nones” have merely switched traditional religion for wokeism, which itself is a form of religion.

i cant make my point unless everything is a form of religion.

cf: ‘science’

209
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:08:00am

re: #157 I Would Prefer Not To

when the next Terminator film comes out, I’m routing for the machines.

He keeps reminding me of Roon from Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams, who suffered a rather interesting fate.

210
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:09:28am

Another Liberdouche weighs in on Elon Musk

211
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:09:40am

re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m not on social media except specific sites like this one.

With the Betamax/VHS wars playing out over various new social media companies, I think I’ll sit back and wait to see how it shakes out before I choose to jump into a social media platform.

In the meantime, LOL

It’s also the power of the dark side.

212
DodgerFan1988  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:11:02am
213
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:14:01am

re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

214
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:16:20am

re: #187 Targetpractice

When you define a significant portion of your life by your religious beliefs and the influence they (and those who espouse them) have over you, it becomes impossible to believe such is not the rule for all others around you.

when your worldview is framed and guided by any assertion of belief* without proof…

* (ie belief ‘in’, rather than belief ‘that’)

215
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:22:04am

re: #203 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I am still convinced that Mr. Musk, like many large “l” Libertarians, is actually opposed to both free speech and freedom of the press. Considering he is richer than God, I can easily imagine him buying Twitter (after trolling about it) so he could break it and shut it down.

That reminds me how Mr. Theil financed the case to bankrupt Gawker, and went after Juanita Jean and Wonkette (a mistake since Wonkette was able to bring on the ACLU, and Gawker is now back).

if so, this is a convoluted and awfully “Bad Machiavelli” way to do it.

he’s not protecting a reputation or constructing some kind of plausible deniability.
he doesn’t need to.

he bought it. he could have literally just turned off the switches.

216
steve_davis  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:22:12am

Sold two other guitars to do it, but managed to get my hands on one of Fender’s new american vintage ii 1961 strats (I managed to snag one of two that apparently came off the factory floor and were on the Fender site as “in stock” for roughly the ten minutes it took two of us to buy them). Sweet Jesus! this is a nice guitar. 7.25” neck radius, which feels wonderfully comfy in my smallish hands. Yes, this does make some pull-offs on the first string a little challenging, as it’s easy to accidentally pull the string over the edge. The common complaint that the curvature causes bends to choke out is not something I’ve encountered. I know one complaint with strats is that the bridge pickup is weak, but not my experience here. At the moment, it’s mostly where I’m living. I have one setting on a nux mighty plug that dials in a really lovely country lick sound at the bridge, and then a setting that adds in some distortion and reverb that gives me a very attractive Bluesbreakers sound. The pickups on the ‘61 were built around the original ‘61’s specs, and my theory is that in 1961, the stratocaster was still mostly a rockabilly/cowboy chord instrument, as the era of screaming leads hadn’t yet arrived. Hence, the really country-toned bridge pickup.

217
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:23:42am

I claim I own a unicorn.

The morans can’t even get “burden of proof” correct (or are lying about it).

218
Teukka  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:24:00am

So this came across my Twitter today. Can’t say I am surprised by this turn of events with Elmo at the helm… And it’s going to get worse. (John is Hank’s brother, and Hank is Hank Green of Scischow fame):

219
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:24:59am

re: #215 Dangerman

if so, this is a convoluted and awfully “Bad Machiavelli” way to do it.

he’s not protecting a reputation or constructing some kind of plausible deniability.
he doesn’t need to.

he bought it. he could have literally just turned off the switches.

I remain convinced that he believes he is saving the world by making Twitter into a right-wing shithole. I think he truly believes that the Right is being suppressed in media, and that amplifying those voices will somehow convince everybody to play together nicely in harmony. He doesn’t seem to grasp the fact that right-wing authoritarians are dead set on killing people they see as sinners, or anti-American, or “woke”.

220
DodgerFan1988  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:25:04am
221
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:25:48am

re: #213 Belafon

i’ve been an Aphilatelist for years

222
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:28:24am

re: #219 Dopamine Fish

I remain convinced that he believes he is saving the world by making Twitter into a right-wing shithole. I think he truly believes that the Right is being suppressed in media, and that amplifying those voices will somehow convince everybody to play together nicely in harmony. He doesn’t seem to grasp the fact that right-wing authoritarians are dead set on killing people they see as sinners, or anti-American, or “woke”.

if he’s any kind of rational actor, that makes some kind of sense

223
Dave In Austin  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:36:06am

68 turns around the Sun today and all I would really like for my BD is a good nites sleep.

224
ericblair  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:36:24am

re: #217 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I claim I own a unicorn.

The morans can’t even get “burden of proof” correct (or are lying about it).

In my callow crazy youth, I lost my mind and got myself a nice little Ph.D. I did Do My Own Research. However, before I Did My Own Research, I had to prove a comprehensive and correct knowledge of the current state of my field of study, plus work with/under an advisor to learn the research ropes. You have to actually learn how to research, and know what has already been done.

The MAGAt/QAnon/whatever lunatic flavor aren’t doing research, obviously. They do not understand what they are looking at, basic logical tools, or have any idea of how to evaluate evidence and studies. They are just sending themselves down ratholes trying to confirm what they already believe, and driving themselves (more) insane in the process.

225
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:37:04am

re: #217 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

226
lawhawk  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:38:28am
227
Teukka  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:38:55am

re: #218 Teukka

So this came across my Twitter today. Can’t say I am surprised by this turn of events with Elmo at the helm… And it’s going to get worse. (John is Hank’s brother, and Hank is Hank Green of Scischow fame):

228
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:41:30am

re: #224 ericblair

In my callow crazy youth, I lost my mind and got myself a nice little Ph.D. I did Do My Own Research. However, before I Did My Own Research, I had to prove a comprehensive and correct knowledge of the current state of my field of study, plus work with/under an advisor to learn the research ropes. You have to actually learn how to research, and know what has already been done.

The MAGAt/QAnon/whatever lunatic flavor aren’t doing research, obviously. They do not understand what they are looking at, basic logical tools, or have any idea of how to evaluate evidence and studies. They are just sending themselves down ratholes trying to confirm what they already believe, and driving themselves (more) insane in the process.

everyone’s an expert on the internets

229
lawhawk  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:42:27am

re: #225 Belafon

So, let me get this straight.

The working theory is that Fauci worked with China on gain of function experiments, and one of those experiments escaped Wuhan facility and turned in to covid19? And Trump purposefully acted in a manner to maximize the body count from said covid19. GOPers likewise maximized death toll from covid19 by refusing to mask, social distance, or vaccinate. Trump claimed that China was doing a great job, and that covid19 would soon be near zero in the US.

But all that is on Fauci?

1.1 million Americans dead later, and the GOP are still trying to pin all this on Fauci, to absolve Trump and GOP for their disastrous handling of the pandemic.

Fauci, who did not set US policy on responding to the covid19 outbreak here.
Fauci, who did not see his policy preferences implemented by Trump, Pence, or Kushner.
Fauci, who was regularly overruled by Trump - Trump who did the opposite of what all actual health experts said.

230
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:43:51am

re: #225 Belafon

Nope. Proof of a theory is on the person claiming it

and

extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof
(Sagan popularizing Laplace)

231
Teukka  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:44:28am

So an Elmo fanboy posted this an thumped his chest that Elmo is rooting out the pedo’s on Twitter. AITA for retorting that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and that although I can understand something taking a couple of weeks to remove due to moderator load sadly being the norm, finding the claim of 4 years highly unlikely…

232
jeffreyw  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:45:40am

Good morning!

233
The Pie Overlord!  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:50:14am

Good morning. Got teh birbie! Hope to make it to Detroit by this evening.

YVlaMjhCcDR0Q0pEOGJCdWkvY3NsTTRhaGlnRUxnZmJRNUE0WkJZZUYra1B2M3FzMTNmenVSdUpTR0h5QWdkSEtaM2Q4MElWaUM3RWRIRVVZbHJJQ2s2c1hLdmJjaE5uTDE4MVhyWE1sdmdaNEZrRU5lOGJJM014ZTNwRCtRU206OgYBZFBvhNZKtqwmaLHLsUY=

234
ericblair  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:51:02am

re: #230 Dangerman

extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof
(Sagan popularizing Laplace)

I never liked this statement, and I respect the hell out of Sagan but that was his full-professor privilege talking. I don’t know how you could define “extraordinary” objectively, but from a practical perspective it means “extraordinary to your research supervisor and/or funding committee.”

You can actually take a hack at something like Occam’s Razor for an objective definition, but the statement as it is doesn’t fit the bill.

235
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:52:30am
Former National Security Council Russia specialist Fiona Hill told CBS News that there was a potential prisoner swap raised during the Trump administration of Marine veteran Paul Whelan for Viktor Bout but that Donald Trump wasn’t “particularly interested.”

Hill said that a prisoner swap was raised several times by Russian officials who “had every intent” on trading Americans wrongfully detained overseas for individuals in U.S. custody.

no one is surprised by this ^^

whereas spy45 claimed he ‘turned down a deal’

236
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:02:15am

re: #234 ericblair

I never liked this statement, and I respect the hell out of Sagan but that was his full-professor privilege talking. I don’t know how you could define “extraordinary” objectively, but from a practical perspective it means “extraordinary to your research supervisor and/or funding committee.”

You can actually take a hack at something like Occam’s Razor for an objective definition, but the statement as it is doesn’t fit the bill.

i look at it as a kind of shorthand.

i think, like many such popularized statements, maybe what they do is open the eyes just a bit. you hear sagan’s platitude, and might dig further into what exactly that means and where it came from and how to apply it. does it have any merit?

yes, it’s valid that there is no quantitative standard, more of a sort of thorny social agreement.

though there is an obvious quality factor to evidence.
different forms do carry different strengths/weights.

237
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:03:27am
238
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:06:59am

*snork*

239
Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:10:20am

re: #151 Hecuba’s daughter

Birdle on a wild swing
Wordle 541 3/6

Click to Reveal

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

240
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:10:54am

Welp, the USPS managed to lose a package of mine in the Minneapolis distribution center, and apparently, I can’t file a claim for lost mail until 15 days after the loss! That’s so freaking dumb. It was supposed to be delivered Thursday, it’s not here, and all they have to say about it is it’s “moving through network”.

241
Jay C  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:28:07am

A lucky (IMO) par today:

Click to Reveal

Wordle 541 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

242
Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:32:21am

re: #240 Dopamine Fish

Welp, the USPS managed to lose a package of mine in the Minneapolis distribution center, and apparently, I can’t file a claim for lost mail until 15 days after the loss! That’s so freaking dumb. It was supposed to be delivered Thursday, it’s not here, and all they have to say about it is it’s “moving through network”.

Opened up my apartment building mailbox on Saturday and got my September credit union statement…on December 10th…

Have had the same problem getting packages delivered from USPS. Brother in law sent a package 6 weeks ago, never showed up. Filed a claim and no response…assuming the claim was placed in a shredder…and yet Mr. Sleeze is still Postmaster General engaging in full time sabotage of the system…

243
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:34:03am

re: #223 Dave In Austin

68 turns around the Sun today and all I would really like for my BD is a good nites sleep.

244
Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:37:17am

re: #223 Dave In Austin

68 turns around the Sun today and all I would really like for my BD is a good nites sleep.

Happy Birthday, Sir Dave. I’m right behind you turning 67 in January…

245
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:39:17am

re: #240 Dopamine Fish

Welp, the USPS managed to lose a package of mine in the Minneapolis distribution center, and apparently, I can’t file a claim for lost mail until 15 days after the loss! That’s so freaking dumb. It was supposed to be delivered Thursday, it’s not here, and all they have to say about it is it’s “moving through network”.

The fifteen-day claim period has been around for many decades.

The issue is out of the billions of pieces of mail the Postal Service handles every year, the amount of lost mail (even with DeJoy sabotaging the system) is insanely better than almost any other country.

The reason for that delay is so if a piece of mail is misdirected, it gives the Post Office time to direct it back to the correct address before filing a bunch of paperwork and then it shows up, wasting both their and your time.

For you of course, the misplacement or loss of your delivery is a significant inconvenience. For the millions of others who got their mail on-time, it was just another day.

I much prefer USPS here than paying more for UPS and them telling me “we don’t deliver to your area, come to our office sixty miles away to pick up your package.”

246
Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:41:50am

How one right-wing activist is fighting to ban over 3,600 books from Florida schools

The name of that activist is Bruce Friedman

He just moved from New York City to Florida and he’s on a rampage to remove thousands of books from libraries.

Friedman says he is just getting started. During a November 28 meeting of the Florida Department of Education Library Media Working Group, Friedman said he had compiled ‘a list of over 3,600 titles that I believe have concerning content,’ including ‘porn, critical race theory, social-emotional learning, [and] fluid gender.’ He said this list proves that ‘libraries have more than a little poison in them.’ Friedman demanded that the school board ‘clean up this mess.’ If not, Friedman threatened to ‘perform 3,600 challenges and overwhelm your awful, awful procedures and policies.’”

Among the books he forced the school board to remove is The Girl From The Sea, an award-winning graphic novel in which “two girls hold hands and, at one point, share a kiss. There is no sex, no swearing, and no nudity.” Friedman told Popular Information that he objected to the book’s presence because girls are “not in school to learn how to be better lesbians.”

“Friedman has exploited this policy by flooding the district with challenges. Friedman told Popular Information that, since June 30, he has ‘investigated between 5 and 10 thousand’ books available in Clay County school libraries on ‘a very cursory level,’” said the report. “Popular Information has obtained dozens of Friedman’s challenge forms through public information requests. Friedman, and a few others he recruited to assist him, filled out these forms identically. The reason for the request is to ‘PROTECT CHILDREN,’ the objectionable material is ‘INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT,’ and the impact of a student using the material is ‘DAMAGED SOULS.’ The answer to most other questions is ‘N/A.’”

This comes after a year of Republicans sparking moral panic over anti-racist and pro-LGBTQ content in books, filing legal actions to get them removed from school libraries and, in one case in Virginia, even from a Barnes & Noble bookstore.

rawstory.com

247
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:42:11am

re: #242 Joe Bacon

Opened up my apartment building mailbox on Saturday and got my September credit union statement…on December 10th…

Have had the same problem getting packages delivered from USPS. Brother in law sent a package 6 weeks ago, never showed up. Filed a claim and no response…assuming the claim was placed in a shredder…and yet Mr. Sleeze is still Postmaster General engaging in full time sabotage of the system…

Our state is considering a suit against our too-big-to-fail telephone company. They decided that they will charge $1 to anyone who receives a paper bill over receiving E-mail or “app” billing. Since a vast majority of the rural area of this state has no cell service or Internet service, the state considers it price-gouging.

248
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:42:44am

re: #245 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m kind of a victim of USPS’s success, here. It’s been so long since I’ve had a package delivery failure (from any delivery service, really, but we’re focusing on USPS here), the one time they don’t come through for me, it feels really bad.

249
No Malarkey!  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:44:48am
250
lawhawk  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:44:50am

Brilliant!

251
Eventual Carrion  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:45:23am

Got it in 3/6 today

Click to Reveal

Wordle 541 3/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

252
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:46:42am

re: #244 Joe Bacon

Happy Birthday, Sir Dave. I’m right behind you turning 67 in January…

It seems I’m the Spring chicken around here, having just aged into the Social Security system at sixty-two (though I have not filed for it).

253
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:47:18am

re: #252 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It seems I’m the Spring chicken around here, having just aged into the Social Security system at sixty-two (though I have not filed for it).

I’m just going to sit quietly in the corner here, with my 40th birthday still years in front of me.

254
Dr Lizardo  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:48:15am

re: #246 Joe Bacon

Sounds like Mr. Friedman has waaaay too much time on his hands.

255
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:49:03am

re: #240 Dopamine Fish

Welp, the USPS managed to lose a package of mine in the Minneapolis distribution center, and apparently, I can’t file a claim for lost mail until 15 days after the loss! That’s so freaking dumb. It was supposed to be delivered Thursday, it’s not here, and all they have to say about it is it’s “moving through network”.

Consider metamucil to speed it along

256
lawhawk  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:49:32am

re: #254 Dr Lizardo

Sounds like Mr. Friedman has waaaay too much time on his hands.

He’s hoping to get amplified by DeSantis. It’s moral panic bulkshit all over again.

257
Dr Lizardo  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:49:52am

re: #249 No Malarkey!

I foresee angry, ALL-CAPS postings from the former denizen 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

258
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:50:52am

re: #248 Dopamine Fish

I’m kind of a victim of USPS’s success, here. It’s been so long since I’ve had a package delivery failure (from any delivery service, really, but we’re focusing on USPS here), the one time they don’t come through for me, it feels really bad.

Sorry to hear about the missing package. ‘Tis the season, I guess. It may actually still be around… somewhere. And might still show up. Although probably at the most inconvenient time.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that UPS is using USPS as an occasional last mile delivery service.

259
I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:51:44am

this just has to be fake. Joined in Oct 2022 and the web site he links to is dead.

260
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:51:48am

I hear that London got a bit of snow recently…

261
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:52:10am

re: #246 Joe Bacon

How one right-wing activist is fighting to ban over 3,600 books from Florida schools

The name of that activist is Bruce Friedman

He just moved from New York City to Florida and he’s on a rampage to remove thousands of books from libraries.

Friedman says he is just getting started. During a November 28 meeting of the Florida Department of Education Library Media Working Group, Friedman said he had compiled ‘a list of over 3,600 titles that I believe have concerning content,’ including ‘porn, critical race theory, social-emotional learning, [and] fluid gender.’ He said this list proves that ‘libraries have more than a little poison in them.’ Friedman demanded that the school board ‘clean up this mess.’ If not, Friedman threatened to ‘perform 3,600 challenges and overwhelm your awful, awful procedures and policies.’”

Among the books he forced the school board to remove is The Girl From The Sea, an award-winning graphic novel in which “two girls hold hands and, at one point, share a kiss. There is no sex, no swearing, and no nudity.” Friedman told Popular Information that he objected to the book’s presence because girls are “not in school to learn how to be better lesbians.”

“Friedman has exploited this policy by flooding the district with challenges. Friedman told Popular Information that, since June 30, he has ‘investigated between 5 and 10 thousand’ books available in Clay County school libraries on ‘a very cursory level,’” said the report. “Popular Information has obtained dozens of Friedman’s challenge forms through public information requests. Friedman, and a few others he recruited to assist him, filled out these forms identically. The reason for the request is to ‘PROTECT CHILDREN,’ the objectionable material is ‘INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT,’ and the impact of a student using the material is ‘DAMAGED SOULS.’ The answer to most other questions is ‘N/A.’”

This comes after a year of Republicans sparking moral panic over anti-racist and pro-LGBTQ content in books, filing legal actions to get them removed from school libraries and, in one case in Virginia, even from a Barnes & Noble bookstore.

rawstory.com

So he floods the system and grinds it to a halt

262
Barefoot Grin  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:52:21am

re: #240 Dopamine Fish

Welp, the USPS managed to lose a package of mine in the Minneapolis distribution center, and apparently, I can’t file a claim for lost mail until 15 days after the loss! That’s so freaking dumb. It was supposed to be delivered Thursday, it’s not here, and all they have to say about it is it’s “moving through network”.

We had a package last month that mysteriously got caught moving through network and it showed up about 1 week late. Saturday I went to pick up a package and the line was out the door, so went again this morning. Only 5 people ahead of me with one clerk on duty. By the time I got my package there were 12 behind me and more coming in. The clerk said no one was scheduled to help until 10am.

263
jeffreyw  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:52:52am

re: #123 ckkatz

Hah!

I had a friend who was in Vietnam.

He said that one night the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) attacked his firebase. When the grunts set off the claymores they had evidentially been turned around and were facing the US troops.

(Apparently the NVA sent in sappers before the attack to clear attack paths. And the sappers had reversed each claymore they found rather than disconnecting them.)

After that they grunts painted a huge white dot on the back of each claymore. And when they saw that dot move….

Tragic design flaw. It read “front towards enemy” but didn’t say which side was the front.

264
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:55:26am

re: #248 Dopamine Fish

I’m kind of a victim of USPS’s success, here. It’s been so long since I’ve had a package delivery failure (from any delivery service, really, but we’re focusing on USPS here), the one time they don’t come through for me, it feels really bad.

Last week we got someone else’s Amazon package.
Didn’t read the label just opened it.
Oops
Chatted with Amazon ..where do we take it what do we do…
Amazon sends out a new package and we can keep this one

It was an inexpensive toy. Maybe $10. We’ll donate it

265
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:55:51am

re: #259 I Would Prefer Not To

Yes, that was my conclusion as well. The newness of the account. That it seems to tweet once a day, generally on Moscow time. That most of the tweets are near random strings of words, that if they made sense, were designed to insult somebody.

I assumed that the account was created for some purpose or other. But that the human associated with the account (and probably multiple others) was uninterested in enlightened and thoughtful discourse.

266
Barefoot Grin  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:57:02am

re: #264 Dangerman

Last week we got someone else’s Amazon package.
Didn’t read the label just opened it.
Oops
Chatted with Amazon ..where do we take it what do we do…
Amazon sends out a new package and we can keep this one

It was an inexpensive toy. Maybe $10. We’ll donate it

This is a constant topic in our condo community FB page. Everyday someone gets a package meant for someone else in the community.

267
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:57:04am

re: #249 No Malarkey!

[Embedded content]

You will write on the board for all to see “I had no business trying this case”

268
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:57:11am

re: #264 Dangerman

Last week we got someone else’s Amazon package.
Didn’t read the label just opened it.
Oops
Chatted with Amazon ..where do we take it what do we do…
Amazon sends out a new package and we can keep this one

It was an inexpensive toy. Maybe $10. We’ll donate it

In the early days of the pandemic, I occasionally got a neighbor’s package, and I would simply deliver it to the appropriate neighbor myself. They returned the favor the one time they got one of my packages, as before we had a chance to track down the address where the package was actually delivered, it mysteriously showed up on our doorstep.

269
lawhawk  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:58:10am

Rest in power.

270
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:58:49am

re: #254 Dr Lizardo

Sounds like Mr. Friedman has waaaay too much time on his hands.

The von daniken of conservative “thought”

271
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:59:56am

re: #257 Dr Lizardo

I foresee angry, ALL-CAPS postings from the former denizen 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

THIS IS NOT WHAT I PAID FOR

272
Dr Lizardo  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:02:33am

re: #271 Dangerman

THIS IS NOT WHAT I PAID FOR

Yeah, probably something to that effect.

273
No Malarkey!  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:03:39am

Spitballing about Sinema here. Assuming she is running for reelection in 2024, if the Democrats think Arizona could be the 50th seat, allowing them to retain control of the Senate, then the smart, if galling, move is to back Sinema and not run a Democrat in 2024. Even an awful Republican candidate like Masters will get at least 46% of the vote, virtually ensuring a GOP victory in a three way race. However, 2024 is a very tough map for the Democrats, so if they think they are going to lose control of the Senate anyway, they can clear Sinema out of the picture by running a credible Democratic candidate in 2024, then plan on trying to regain the seat in 2030 if a Republican wins.

274
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:04:44am

re: #268 Dopamine Fish

In the early days of the pandemic, I occasionally got a neighbor’s package, and I would simply deliver it to the appropriate neighbor myself. They returned the favor the one time they got one of my packages, as before we had a chance to track down the address where the package was actually delivered, it mysteriously showed up on our doorstep.

Same here. I and the neighbors, who live one block down, but share the last 4 out of the 5 digits on our street addresses, return each other’s packages all the time. The drivers for USPS, UPS, and Amazon all seem to have gotten caught in this.

I will say that our current regular USPS letter carrier does do an excellent job. There was a nextdoor thread on crappy USPS service. And the only letter carrier to get all compliments and no criticism’s was our current one.

275
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:04:45am

Seems like there’s a notable increase over the past few days of posters heading for the doors and leaving Twitter.

Should be an interesting week ahead.

276
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:04:52am

re: #245 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The fifteen-day claim period has been around for many decades.

The issue is out of the billions of pieces of mail the Postal Service handles every year, the amount of lost mail (even with DeJoy sabotaging the system) is insanely better than almost any other country.

The reason for that delay is so if a piece of mail is misdirected, it gives the Post Office time to direct it back to the correct address before filing a bunch of paperwork and then it shows up, wasting both their and your time.

For you of course, the misplacement or loss of your delivery is a significant inconvenience. For the millions of others who got their mail on-time, it was just another day.

I much prefer USPS here than paying more for UPS and them telling me “we don’t deliver to your area, come to our office sixty miles away to pick up your package.”

About ten years ago, when my oldest son was in college, we needed to get a new debit card to him, from Texas to Iowa, like quickly. So we FedEx’d it. And it didn’t show up after the two day shipping. And we tracked it, and it was still stuck in one of their warehouses. It took nearly a week for them to finally find it in the warehouse. We did get our payment back.

277
sagehen  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:04:55am

So this Lockerbie story…

I would have sworn there was a guy in jail in Scotland, got “compassionate release” back to Libya because he was supposedly dying, then miraculously recovered…

Is this that same guy? Or another Lockerbie conspirator?

278
lawhawk  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:05:50am

re: #277 sagehen

So this Lockerbie story…

I would have sworn there was a guy in jail in Scotland, got “compassionate release” back to Libya because he was supposedly dying, then miraculously recovered…

Is this that same guy? Or another Lockerbie conspirator?

Coconspirator.

The other guy was released on compassionate release due to having cancer.

279
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:06:08am

re: #273 No Malarkey!

Spitballing about Sinema here. Assuming she is running for reelection in 2024, if the Democrats think Arizona could be the 50th seat, allowing them to retain control of the Senate, then the smart, if galling, move is to back Sinema and not run a Democrat in 2024. Even an awful Republican candidate like Masters will get at least 46% of the vote, virtually ensuring a GOP victory in a three way race. However, 2024 is a very tough map for the Democrats, so if they think they are going to lose control of the Senate anyway, they can clear Sinema out of the picture by running a credible Democratic candidate in 2024, then plan on trying to regain the seat in 2030 if a Republican wins.

Arizona 2024
electoral-vote.com

280
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:07:59am

re: #275 Eclectic Cyborg

Seems like there’s a notable increase over the past few days of posters heading for the doors and leaving Twitter.

Should be an interesting week ahead.

281
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:08:27am

re: #254 Dr Lizardo

Sounds like Mr. Friedman has waaaay too much time on his hands.

Evangelicals online didn’t really like it when I suggested that while moving to a future where robots would do most of the work would allow most humans to pursue things that would really interest them, I would require them to work more hours because all they would do it interfere in other people’s lives.

282
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:10:10am

re: #275 Eclectic Cyborg

Even among those who are still sticking with twitter, I’m seeing a lot less posting. And a lot less new content.

283
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:11:18am

re: #273 No Malarkey!

Spitballing about Sinema here. Assuming she is running for reelection in 2024, if the Democrats think Arizona could be the 50th seat, allowing them to retain control of the Senate, then the smart, if galling, move is to back Sinema and not run a Democrat in 2024. Even an awful Republican candidate like Masters will get at least 46% of the vote, virtually ensuring a GOP victory in a three way race. However, 2024 is a very tough map for the Democrats, so if they think they are going to lose control of the Senate anyway, they can clear Sinema out of the picture by running a credible Democratic candidate in 2024, then plan on trying to regain the seat in 2030 if a Republican wins.

Which will be a tough calculus because we weren’t supposed to keep the Senate this year.

284
teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:12:05am
285
jeffreyw  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:12:08am

Post this into the search box on Twitter to find which of your Twitter follows are also on Post:

post.news filter:follows

should work for mastodon, too:

mastodon filter:follows

286
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:12:44am

re: #282 ckkatz

Even among those who are still sticking with twitter, I’m seeing a lot less posting. And a lot less new content.

I think the trend is clear. The transition will take time

287
lizardofid  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:13:00am

re: #265 ckkatz

Yes, that was my conclusion as well. The newness of the account. That it seems to tweet once a day, generally on Moscow time. That most of the tweets are near random strings of words, that if they made sense, were designed to insult somebody.

I assumed that the account was created for some purpose or other. But that the human associated with the account (and probably multiple others) was uninterested in enlightened and thoughtful discourse.

Is such thing as a parody bot?

288
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:14:16am

re: #264 Dangerman

Last week we got someone else’s Amazon package.
Didn’t read the label just opened it.
Oops
Chatted with Amazon ..where do we take it what do we do…
Amazon sends out a new package and we can keep this one

It was an inexpensive toy. Maybe $10. We’ll donate it

A couple years ago I got a handmade glass centrepiece for a wedding in Kansas delivered by DHL. I was able to contact the woman who’d ordered it and the company which sent it, and told both I would express mail it from the Post Office so she would get in time for the wedding.

The woman contacted the company when she received it and sent me a thank you card. The company sent me a cheque for $100 (way more than the express mail postage) as a thank you.

289
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:14:18am

I just put myself on the Post waiting list this morning, after seeing that @Popehat was leaving Twitter behind and going there. It looks like Hive might have been a mistake; I haven’t seen it get much traction, even though it feels more Twitter-like than the others. I was, however, pleased to see Mastodon instances have a Web interface, which I use when I’m in my office for convenience.

290
teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:14:22am
291
sizzzzlerz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:15:10am

re: #223 Dave In Austin

68 turns around the Sun today and all I would really like for my BD is a good nites sleep.

Let me know how it treats you. My 68th is in April.

292
No Malarkey!  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:15:21am

re: #279 Dangerman

Arizona 2024
electoral-vote.com

The problem with the theory that “Lake is not popular with Republicans” is that she just demonstrated that she is, getting over 49% of the vote in the Governor’s race and falling only 17k votes short of winning. Lake would win a three way race in 2024.

293
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:15:25am
294
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:15:39am

re: #287 lizardofid

Is such thing as a parody bot?

Beats the heck out of me.

On more than one occasion, I have found myself standing on the wrong side of the sarchasm.

295
lawhawk  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:17:41am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

Now that’s funny.

296
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:17:58am
297
sizzzzlerz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:18:18am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

Had to be frustrating for Elon. They didn’t work for him so he couldn’t fire or humiliate them.

298
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:19:10am

re: #276 Belafon

About ten years ago, when my oldest son was in college, we needed to get a new debit card to him, from Texas to Iowa, like quickly. So we FedEx’d it. And it didn’t show up after the two day shipping. And we tracked it, and it was still stuck in one of their warehouses. It took nearly a week for them to finally find it in the warehouse. We did get our payment back.

When I lived in Oklahoma, for some reason the VA sent me my medications via UPS instead of the Post Office. It got to the Ponca City warehouse, but the warehouse was hit that afternoon by a tornado. The storm ripped apart the warehouse, spreading packages over a hundred miles away (my medications included).

It took some time to convince the VA that my drugs were gone and they needed to replace them (apparently they thought I was trying to scam controlled substances).

299
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:19:16am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Why don’t they love me?

300
Eventual Carrion  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:20:10am

Word Hurdle 3/6

Click to Reveal

Word Hurdle 655 3/6 #wordhurdle

🤍💛💛🤍💛💛
💙💙💛🤍💙🤍
💙💙💙💙💙💙

wordhurdle.co

301
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:20:48am

Hmm..

For some reason, when I click on the upding count number, the window darkens, as always, but no window with the list of updingers appears.

This is on a windows desktop and firefox browser.

302
teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:21:22am

Elmo suffered a pretty severe narcissistic injury last night at the Chappelle concert (and fuck that guy too, he’s really fallen off) and now this week will be very interesting scary.

303
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:22:58am

re: #298 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When I lived in Oklahoma, for some reason the VA sent me my medications via UPS instead of the Post Office. It got to the Ponca City warehouse, but the warehouse was hit that afternoon by a tornado. The storm ripped apart the warehouse, spreading packages over a hundred miles away (my medications included).

It took some time to convince the VA that my drugs were gone and they needed to replace them (apparently they thought I was trying to scam controlled substances).

Mash episode, goat eats payroll

304
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:25:18am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Chappelle couldn’t take it either it seems.

305
lawhawk  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:25:50am
306
teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:25:53am
307
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:26:43am

For those following White Lotus, Ben Collins’ predictions -
ETA - decided to put it behind a private label

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

308
teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:29:06am
309
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:29:25am

re: #304 Belafon

Chappelle couldn’t take it either it seems.

Dave Chappelle is a literal dumpster fire. He got mad at “cancel culture” when his show got canceled at a highly popular Minneapolis venue because he went on a homophobic rant.

310
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:30:05am

re: #307 ckkatz

For those following White Lotus, Ben Collins’ predictions -
ETA - decided to put it behind a private label

[Embedded content]

I haven’t caught a lot of that show - I try to get into it, especially because of the cast, but it’s just not my thing - but one of the things I have noticed from both seasons is that it’s the men that are nude most often, not the women.

Edit: I point this out in that they seem to be inverting the usual expectations on this. Good for them.

311
DodgerFan1988  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:30:25am

Apartheid Cyde already pushing the Caravan invasion panic.

312
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:32:24am

A few discussions of the Chapple-Musk fiasco -

.

313
Dr Lizardo  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:33:14am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

Musk is used to everyone kissing his ass. He went onstage, no doubt expecting wild adulation. What he got was the opposite of his expectations.

314
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:33:32am

re: #311 DodgerFan1988

[Embedded content]

Apartheid Cyde already pushing the Caravan invasion panic.

I did see that El Paso had a large influx all at once of about 500 people from what I saw reported, but the other numbers are probably standard procedure. They have to have a reason to keep people in custody.

315
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:33:36am

re: #313 Dr Lizardo

Musk is used to everyone kissing his ass. He went onstage, no doubt expecting wild adulation. What he got was the opposite of his expectations.

Great thread on that topic:

316
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:34:50am

re: #312 ckkatz

A few discussions of the Chapple-Musk fiasco -

[Embedded content]

Hey, Elon, you’re getting booed from the left and the right (I hope there aren’t any left-leaning people there to see Kid Rock). You must be doing something right. //

317
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:35:56am

re: #312 ckkatz

318
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:35:57am

re: #310 Belafon

I haven’t caught a lot of that show - I try to get into it, especially because of the cast, but it’s just not my thing - but one of the things I have noticed from both seasons is that it’s the men that are nude most often, not the women.

tbh, I have not watched it. I’m not much of a tv watcher. I didn’t watch GOT. And have only got through the first episode of Rings of Power.

Or maybe I just live vicariously here…

But a few lizards here have commented on it. So I thought to pass on posts that I had come across.

319
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:35:58am

re: #314 Belafon

I did see that El Paso had a large influx all at once of about 500 people from what I saw reported, but the other numbers are probably standard procedure. They have to have a reason to keep people in custody.

That’s the part the right-wingers are so up in arms about. They’re used to the post-9/11-era, Guantanamo-Bay-style, “Just lock ‘em up and hold ‘em until we figure out something to charge them with.” The idea that people can cross the border, present themselves to an immigration officer, say, “I am requesting asylum,” and then just be let loose because presumption of innocence baffles and enrages them.

320
Barefoot Grin  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:36:13am

re: #305 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

The human flatiron building.

321
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:36:38am

I swear it seems like Trump has found a way to transfer his brain into Elons body.

322
DodgerFan1988  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:37:27am
323
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:37:51am

re: #321 Eclectic Cyborg

I swear it seems like Trump has found a way to transfer his brain into Elons body.

Narcissists form a hivemind.

324
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:38:10am

re: #323 Belafon

Narcissists form a hivemind.

The anti-woke mind virus.

325
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:38:25am

re: #321 Eclectic Cyborg

I swear it seems like Trump has found a way to transfer his brain into Elons body.

They have the same personality disorder and are seeking praise to feed it from the same vile people after alienating the rest of us.

326
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:40:42am

re: #319 Dopamine Fish

That’s the part the right-wingers are so up in arms about. They’re used to the post-9/11-era, Guantanamo-Bay-style, “Just lock ‘em up and hold ‘em until we figure out something to charge them with.” The idea that people can cross the border, present themselves to an immigration officer, say, “I am requesting asylum,” and then just be let loose because presumption of innocence baffles and enrages them.

Somebody here pointed out that a lot of the wingnut rage involves their finding out how things actually work.

327
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:40:51am

re: #325 Crush White Nationalism

They have the same personality disorder and are seeking praise to feed it from the same vile people after alienating the rest of us.

As we say in gaming, they share a single brain cell.

328
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:41:06am

re: #259 I Would Prefer Not To

this just has to be fake. Joined in Oct 2022 and the web site he links to is dead.

Nah. The guy is just a fascist.

329
Dr Lizardo  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:41:48am

re: #321 Eclectic Cyborg

I swear it seems like Trump has found a way to transfer his brain into Elons body.

I’d say, “Sith alchemy”, but Trump wouldn’t last one minute as a Sith. He’d decapitate himself with his lightsaber or something equally stupid.

330
FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:42:25am

re: #266 Barefoot Grin

This is a constant topic in our condo community FB page. Everyday someone gets a package meant for someone else in the community.

Packages at my building get left just outside the door or just inside the door by the mailboxes. I look over the addresses every day or two in case I was sent something.* And if the package is addressed to a different building or apartment not in the building I take the package over to the complex office or leave it by the proper door.

* - Does happen every so often since I will get gift boxes from people. Like the chocolates I got from my financial advisor last week.

331
ericblair  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:44:46am

re: #317 Crush White Nationalism

Imagine having the means to dive in Maldives one day, thrown rooftop party another day, and have a nice hike in Andes the next day - but spending your days pretending to be cool in front of internet weirdos & evangelical right-wingers.

This manchild is wealthy beyond all measure, and could do almost anything without even noticing its cost. And out of all the possibilities in the entire world, he chooses to shitpost for fascist weirdo cred. That is what he wants to do.

332
darthstar  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:45:17am

re: #251 Eventual Carrion

Got it in 3/6 today

[Embedded content]

Same. Yesterday was an X - my third since I started playing wordle 200+ days ago

333
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:45:59am

re: #330 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

We’ll occasionally get a misdirected letter, newspaper, or magazine for someone else in town. When that happens, we’ll either put it in their mailbox (even though we’re in town we’re all technically on a Rural Free Delivery route) or take it to their home.

For misdirected mail which should be out-of-town, either take it to the Post Office or drop it in the mailbox.

334
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:46:26am

re: #328 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Nah. The guy is just a fascist.

[Embedded content]

Seems like a once-productive guy who had a mental breakdown with religious features.

VivoBots is about Robotics & related Arts & Sciences.
I am taking a break from posting videos for a while to finish writing my new Christian Bible with Koran.
After it is finished around April 2023, I will post a video about it.
Thanks for visiting.

youtube.com

335
FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:46:37am

re: #273 No Malarkey!

Spitballing about Sinema here. Assuming she is running for reelection in 2024, if the Democrats think Arizona could be the 50th seat, allowing them to retain control of the Senate, then the smart, if galling, move is to back Sinema and not run a Democrat in 2024. Even an awful Republican candidate like Masters will get at least 46% of the vote, virtually ensuring a GOP victory in a three way race. However, 2024 is a very tough map for the Democrats, so if they think they are going to lose control of the Senate anyway, they can clear Sinema out of the picture by running a credible Democratic candidate in 2024, then plan on trying to regain the seat in 2030 if a Republican wins.

And the Democrats might also look long term here and decide to eat the loss anyways. Sinema is trying to set herself up as the “Young Bernie”. And between King, Sanders, and her a disturbing pattern is starting to develop where a politician essentially gets to sit there and gadfly the party while practically never doing anything to back the party’s other candidates. They just join the party long enough each election cycle to run and/or renew the threat of costing the party a seat. (Which arguably is only de facto theirs due to the caucus since it is technically “independent”.)

336
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:48:47am

The National Weather Service has updated our blizzard warning. More snow and tropical storm-force winds.

…BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 11 PM
MST WEDNESDAY…

* WHAT…Blizzard conditions expected. Widespread total snow
accumulations of 6 to 12 inches, with localized heavier amounts.
Winds gusting between 50 go 60 mph.

* WHERE…Portions of panhandle Nebraska and southeast Wyoming.

* WHEN…From 5 PM this afternoon to 11 PM MST Wednesday.

* IMPACTS…Travel could be very difficult to impossible.
Widespread blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility.
The cold wind chills as low as 15 below zero could result in
hypothermia if precautions are not taken.

337
BigPapa  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:48:51am

I’m done. Tony Snark going Qnut and the shitgoblins making ‘Michael Obama’ trend means I cannot let one cent be made off my Twitter account. Let that place turn into 44BChan. I’ll try to find my favs in other places. There are a lot of you. This site is still my internet home.

338
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:49:15am

re: #333 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We’ll occasionally get a misdirected letter, newspaper, or magazine for someone else in town. When that happens, we’ll either put it in their mailbox (even though we’re in town we’re all technically on a Rural Free Delivery route) or take it to their home.

For misdirected mail which should be out-of-town, either take it to the Post Office or drop it in the mailbox.

The USPS has procedures for misdelivered mail. I had to exercise those procedures in late 2020, when I started receiving hospital bills for a person who somehow put down our address. I seem to recall it involved writing “not at this address” on the envelope, and setting the flag for the postal worker to know to retrieve it and take it back to the post office for the postmaster to deal with.

339
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:52:17am

re: #329 Dr Lizardo

I’d say, “Sith alchemy”, but Trump wouldn’t last one minute as a Sith. He’d decapitate himself with his lightsaber or something equally stupid.

I’d be happy to see him Force choke himself.

340
sagehen  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:52:26am

re: #307 ckkatz

For those following White Lotus, Ben Collins’ predictions -
ETA - decided to put it behind a private label

[Embedded content]

V0pWUEhrajBOU0tESzBpSXNXUTlMcHNQcnRneDJZYXM5a1Z6emgrVG50VkRXRWZ3U0R1dmxoaGlJVEtIRHg4Y2EzanRqTUtsZW9yUkd6T1NraktNMElJdUZiS1NpaSt4SEY3VDUvY2kyWFZ1WGlzdFhHM3dsZlNRUnRiUGlYa2U6OqJIoGCgDR4zz3depS/hQ0g=

341
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:52:35am

re: #317 Crush White Nationalism

“technically” 90/10?
what is ‘technically’?
and you’re just swagging these bullshit numbers

you got hosed
own it

342
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:53:32am

re: #321 Eclectic Cyborg

I swear it seems like Trump has found a way to transfer his brain into Elons body.

whoda thunk there would be more than one like him

343
Dave In Austin  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:54:45am

re: #291 sizzzzlerz

Let me know how it treats you. My 68th is in April.

Don’t expect much. I have made the decision that I will not retire. Health and/or death will be the determining factors here. There’s no kids to hand off too so I’m in a constant state of sale and potlatch. The looks I get when I say to someone, “like it? It’s yours.” Is priceless.

344
BadgerB  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:54:54am

re: #223 Dave In Austin

I will hit the big 60 on Thursday and I thank all of you who have gone ahead of me for scouting the way and checking for tigers. :)

345
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:55:05am

re: #341 Dangerman

“technically” 90/10?
what is ‘technically’?
and you’re just swagging these bullshit numbers

you got hosed
own it

He can’t, thanks to the narcissism.
He’s gotten himself stuck with his head up his own ass and now has to lie to himself to feel OK. This will be why he openly identifies with the bigoted willfully-ignorant far-right.

346
Barefoot Grin  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:55:50am

re: #330 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Packages at my building get left just outside the door or just inside the door by the mailboxes. I look over the addresses every day or two in case I was sent something.* And if the package is addressed to a different building or apartment not in the building I take the package over to the complex office or leave it by the proper door.

* - Does happen every so often since I will get gift boxes from people. Like the chocolates I got from my financial advisor last week.

We have lockboxes for anything sent via USPS in our mail house, but they won’t let other carriers drop off there. TBF to the carriers, it’s a pretty confusing layout.

347
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:56:15am

re: #301 ckkatz

Hmm..

For some reason, when I click on the upding count number, the window darkens, as always, but no window with the list of updingers appears.

This is on a windows desktop and firefox browser.

Nevermind… I bounced firefox and things seem to be working correctly again.

348
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:57:48am

re: #335 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

And the Democrats might also look long term here and decide to eat the loss anyways. Sinema is trying to set herself up as the “Young Bernie”. And between King, Sanders, and her a disturbing pattern is starting to develop where a politician essentially gets to sit there and gadfly the party while practically never doing anything to back the party’s other candidates. They just join the party long enough each election cycle to run and/or renew the threat of costing the party a seat. (Which arguably is only de facto theirs due to the caucus since it is technically “independent”.)

she may recognize she doesnt have a viable independent path (ie not enough $)

separately

what she’s doing is blackmail plan and simple.
2024 *may* be the year to sacrifice the seat so no one is keen to try it again.
it’s way, way too early to assess this

349
darthstar  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:01:01am

re: #336 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The National Weather Service has updated our blizzard warning. More snow and tropical storm-force winds.

Friend of mine in Truckee didn’t bother to pull his car all the way into the garage as that storm passed the other night. Got a bit of snow there to brush off.

350
No Malarkey!  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:03:01am

re: #313 Dr Lizardo

Musk is used to everyone kissing his ass. He went onstage, no doubt expecting wild adulation. What he got was the opposite of his expectations.

If he wants adulation, he better go to CPAC

351
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:04:32am
352
Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:04:34am

re: #350 No Malarkey!

If he wants adulation, he better go to CPAC

He’ll fit right in at CPAC!

353
Dr Lizardo  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:04:50am

re: #350 No Malarkey!

If he wants adulation, he better go to CPAC

Oh, I’m sure he’ll be invited for next year’s shindig.

354
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:04:55am

re: #349 darthstar

Friend of mine in Truckee didn’t bother to pull his car all the way into the garage as that storm passed the other night. Got a bit of snow there to brush off.

[Embedded content]

At that point, don’t bother. It’s time to break out the sled and dogs.

355
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:07:34am

re: #335 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

And the Democrats might also look long term here and decide to eat the loss anyways. Sinema is trying to set herself up as the “Young Bernie”. And between King, Sanders, and her a disturbing pattern is starting to develop where a politician essentially gets to sit there and gadfly the party while practically never doing anything to back the party’s other candidates. They just join the party long enough each election cycle to run and/or renew the threat of costing the party a seat. (Which arguably is only de facto theirs due to the caucus since it is technically “independent”.)

At least Bernie and King vote consistently.

356
lizardofid  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:07:36am

re: #350 No Malarkey!

If he wants adulation, he better go to CPAC

Or fill out a foursome at the next Mar a Lago gathering.

357
Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:12:07am

358
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:13:14am

The rest of the thread thanks to Anne:

I think Musty looks at Twitter and sees data and therefore money, but mostly he misreads people communicating for attention. And he thinks they should be talking about him, paying attention to him. This explains his ham-fisted shit-posting.

It also helps explain his hard turn to the right. If you give the conservative base what it wants (racism, conspiracy theories, etc.) they’ll give you attention. And I’m sure Musty looks at Trump and thinks, ‘First they give you their attention, then money, then loyalty.’

I think this also explains why Musty has people who will help him prop up this hellsite. Because if he turns it into a vehicle to hurt conservative boogeymen, that’s a win for them—and another avenue to control information and organizing by the masses.

Conservatives have made it abundantly clear over the last few years is that they’re done with democracy and ready for complete control. Having someone like Musty own a massive platform for organizing & information dovetails nicely w/those interests. Even if he’s a useful idiot.

I should add, i do think Musty is a smart person—in some areas. But he seems to prioritize manipulation for his own ends above all else and he clearly has massive blind spots. If this were a movie, his road to supervillianism would end poorly. But in the real world, who knows.

balloon-juice.com

359
No Malarkey!  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:14:45am

re: #335 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

And the Democrats might also look long term here and decide to eat the loss anyways. Sinema is trying to set herself up as the “Young Bernie”. And between King, Sanders, and her a disturbing pattern is starting to develop where a politician essentially gets to sit there and gadfly the party while practically never doing anything to back the party’s other candidates. They just join the party long enough each election cycle to run and/or renew the threat of costing the party a seat. (Which arguably is only de facto theirs due to the caucus since it is technically “independent”.)

A good point. However, if you think Arizona would be the 50th seat, passing up the opportunity to get dozens of lifetime federal judges confirmed just to get rid of Sinema is a high price to pay. OTOH, if you think the GOP will control the Senate whether Sinema wins or not, I would run a Democrat against her.

360
teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:18:32am

Speaking of mind viruses…

361
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:21:14am

I don’t think Don Jr’s fascist antics are going to be a problem for much longer.
This is from the young Nazi gala in NY last weekend.

362
No Malarkey!  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:24:56am
363
No Malarkey!  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:26:06am
364
Teukka  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:26:29am

re: #308 teleskiguy

365
lawhawk  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:26:45am
366
Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:29:26am

good lord, advertising on twitter is now brought to you by the ghost of Billy Mays.

367
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:31:02am

It simply amazing to watch a multi-billionaire implode in real time.

I guess we have social media to thank for that.

368
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:31:52am

My, how times have changed! Richmond, the former Capitol of the Confederacy.

Although, it must be noted that white flight to the suburbs of Richmond over the past half century has made the city itself significantly African-American.

The removal was complicated because the monument is also Hill’s gravestone.

WaPo:Richmond’s last major city-owned Confederate memorial is now down

RICHMOND — Workers began dismantling this city’s last major icon to the Lost Cause on Monday morning, lifting a statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill from its base in the middle of a busy intersection before a small crowd of onlookers.
*snip*
More than a dozen other Confederate monuments around this historic city have been removed since 2020, when social-justice protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis finally forced Richmond to confront its memorial landscape.
*snip*
Once the stone base is fully opened up by workers for Team Henry, the Black-owned contractor that has overseen demolition of almost all the city’s monuments, a crew will extract Hill’s coffin. A funeral home will transport the remains to a burial plot in Hill’s hometown of Culpeper that the city of Richmond purchased for $1,000.

Richmond’s last major city-owned Confederate memorial is now down

369
JC1  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:35:08am

Musk booed after joining Dave Chappelle on stage.

gizmodo.com

370
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:36:44am

Yesterday there was about an eight mile-long string of “deposit cars” (returning empty coal cars) sitting on the UP tracks.

This morning, UP is running a bunch of locomotives up to break up the parked cars and move them out of the area. I presume that’s for the upcoming high winds and blizzard.

371
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:37:01am
372
Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:37:16am

re: #366 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

good lord, advertising on twitter is now brought to you by the ghost of Billy Mays.

Oh I’m sure the catheters, Medicare supplements, Reverse mortgages and Gold Coin ads are sure to follow!

373
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:38:35am

re: #365 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

Court: You can only make this happen if everyone one gets all of their debt excused.
Biden: The Court said it must be done.

374
Acemarilllion (yes, three 'l's)  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:38:42am

re: #114 BlueSpotinAL

For you computer guys who remember Bastard Operator From Hell, and other shenanigans:

[Embedded content]

I recall when Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) had a claymore replica on his desk to face visitors:

375
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:41:11am

re: #371 ckkatz

376
Dr. Matt  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:42:15am

re: #369 JC1

Musk booed after joining Dave Chappelle on stage.

gizmodo.com

Now he’s going to became even more of an unhinged Q-tard right-winger. He’s the following the same path as tRump crime family, Kanye, Michael Savage-Weiner, etc. who all turned into rat fucking Nazis when they left the Left.

377
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:44:50am

re: #375 Crush White Nationalism

Thanks for researching this! Did not know this.

I did notice her method of speaking was in the form of a high quality late 19th-early 20th Century public speaking. As senator she would have needed this skill.

378
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:45:43am

re: #359 No Malarkey!

A good point. However, if you think Arizona would be the 50th seat, passing up the opportunity to get dozens of lifetime federal judges confirmed just to get rid of Sinema is a high price to pay. OTOH, if you think the GOP will control the Senate whether Sinema wins or not, I would run a Democrat against her.

On the third hand, if Sinema is running against a Republican and maybe a Libertarian, how many Democrats sit out the election and not only screw up the Senate, but also any downballot races where a Democrat’s coattails would be helpful?

379
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:45:53am

ta da

SWpiVXZFbkNmakZIbENPWXUxS3ppVVo4UnJaelRxOHlMem5CSkFYK1I0bFA1VHhUT2lZU0xnUkFBcFY3RmpUQXZXejh6NDF5dVFPKzhnVFgyb0M3OGtWb290RkZmclZTTkhtVjJVVDIxSDg9OjrfulbJq4825+MfDBhOQz5n

380
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:46:57am

re: #374 Acemarilllion (yes, three ‘l’s)

At one point, one major I worked with had this on his desk. (A demilitarized dummy grenade, btw.)

381
JC1  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:47:46am

re: #376 Dr. Matt

Now he’s going to became even more of an unhinged Q-tard right-winger. He’s the following the same path as tRump crime family, Kanye, Michael Savage-Weiner, etc. who all turned into rat fucking Nazis when they left the Left.

Used to be a Musk fan. He’s really revealed himself to be such a disappointment. Sad to see; so much potential.

382
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:49:05am

re: #380 ckkatz

I’ve always been fond of this one:

383
I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:49:21am

Random Thoughts:

1) Musk was booed for many reasons, but consider this. people pay a lot or money to see Chapelle perform comedy. Musk is not a comedian. I would boo if I paid 100 plus bucks for a ticket and they brought up an non comedian on stage. Not what I paid to see. it’s just wrong. and I blame Chapelle as much as Musk.

2) Is a merger of twitter and truth social a possibility? If yes, you heard it here first.

384
Dr. Matt  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:50:34am

re: #381 JC1

Used to be a Musk fan. He’s really revealed himself to be such a disappointment. Sad to see; so much potential.

I always thought he was quirky, but a harmless person who actually cared about humanity. Turns out he’s just another rat fucking billionaire who believes his wealth makes his viewpoints superior. I hope he gets dick cancer.

385
Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:53:02am

re: #382 Eclectic Cyborg

And you’ll wait till…

386
Barefoot Grin  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:53:45am

I wonder what the response would be if Chappelle introduced him in Dallas or Knoxville. Maybe the same since I assume it would be a similar audience despite the red state location. But there must have been a lot of people employed in tech who hate what he has done to twitter in that SF audience.

387
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:55:59am

Interesting, the meaning of the ellipse seems to be evolving.

And I am ending up on the geezer side. Which would not be a surprise…

The Ellipsis is Widening the Gap Between Millennials and Boomers. Here’s Why

“I emailed a professor to schedule a meeting to go over some classes and he replied with ‘Sounds good…we can meet then.’ I thought he hated me,” TikTok user @heyanoushka lamented in a viral video last month. “I will spend 10 minutes trying to interpret the tone of this ellipsis,” TikToker @megalybrak captioned a montage of e-mails from their manager. So what’s the deal with the ellipsis and why is it causing so much intergenerational confusion?
*snip*
Turns out, people were sprinkling their phrases with ellipses long before texts and Facebook comments existed. A look back at casual written communication of the past—old postcards, recipe books and informal notes—clued McCulloch into the intended use of the punctuation. “When we think about informal pre-internet writing, space was at a premium. If you’re sending someone a postcard, but you only have a small box to write in, you won’t speak in full sentences,” she points out. To save real estate on the page, the writer would string together thoughts using ellipses and dashes, rather than penning longer, formal sentences with periods. You wouldn’t want someone to read your brownies recipe only to discover you didn’t have space to include bake time or cooling instructions, right?
*snip*
But we no longer have to worry about running out of room on the recipe card. “It seems to be that using a dot-dot-dot imports an offline norm into an internet space,” McCulloch notes. The internet gives our words room to breathe. With the vast digital expanse at our disposal, we’re free to use as many line breaks as we’d like in e-mails or fire off 20 texts in a group chat. Run out of characters in a tweet? Simply pick up where you left off with a new tweet reply (or five). And as for that recipe? Write an entire essay about your childhood before getting to the instructions for the perfect double-chocolate brownie.
*snip*
So why do the dots cause so much drama compared to the innocuous dash or comma? To the younger crowd—whose first words to their crush probably went down on Instant Messenger—the ellipsis has taken on an entirely different meaning. “For people who primarily use line breaks as a way of separating their thoughts, the dot-dot-dot is then available for another meaning, and that other meaning is something left unsaid,” McCulloch tells us. To Millennials, the three dots are a punctuational bridge to nowhere, signaling hesitation, trailing off or—at worst—passive aggression. “I can’t wait to see your presentation…” suggests a continuation the writer is thinking, but won’t actually come forward with, like, “…because it’s sure to be a disaster.”

The Ellipsis is Widening the Gap Between Millennials and Boomers.

388
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:56:54am
389
JC1  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:57:28am

re: #384 Dr. Matt

I always thought he was quirky, but a harmless person who actually cared about humanity. Turns out he’s just another rat fucking billionaire who believes his wealth makes his viewpoints superior. I hope he gets dick cancer.

He’s about to become a lot less rich…
teslarati.com

The only reason that TSLA stock isn’t falling through the floor despite seemingly falling demand is that investors think the slowdown is due to people delaying purchases until the new tax credit becomes available in 2023. If it turns out that it’s largely due to Tesla’s and Elon’s falling popularity, it wouldn’t surprise me if the stock falls by 90% from here.

390
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:59:21am

re: #385 Joe Bacon

[Embedded content]

Well, it is in Michigan, so I suppose Hell freezing over is a lot more common than the saying implies.

391
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:59:33am

re: #382 Eclectic Cyborg

Ha! I had not seen that one before.

392
lizardofid  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:59:43am

re: #386 Barefoot Grin

I wonder what the response would be if Chappelle introduced him in Dallas or Knoxville. Maybe the same since I assume it would be a similar audience despite the red state location. But there must have been a lot of people employed in tech who hate what he has done to twitter in that SF audience.

True, but regardless of the city, are there gonna be a lot of folks with what he calls “the woke virus” in a Chappelle crowd these day?

393
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:00:01am

Welp. Just found out someone I sat across the table from at a Christmas party this weekend tested positive for Covid this morning.

394
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:00:38am

re: #393 Eclectic Cyborg

Welp. Just found out someone I sat across the table from at a Christmas party this weekend tested positive for Covid this morning.

I’m sorry to hear that. I hope you are safe.

395
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:01:29am
396
Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:01:43am

Inquiring minds want to know if they made a Love Connection at Target!

397
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:01:45am
398
Barefoot Grin  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:02:35am

re: #392 lizardofid

True, but regardless of the city, are there gonna be a lot of folks with what he calls “the woke virus” in a Chappelle crowd these day?

Yeah, I doubt that there would be given how his shtick these days is grievance over “cancel culture.”

399
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:02:55am
400
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:03:06am

re: #392 lizardofid

True, but regardless of the city, are there gonna be a lot of folks with what he calls “the woke virus” in a Chappelle crowd these day?

The richest man in the world thinks that rejecting bigotry and having empathy for others is not just a virus, but the #1 threat to humanity. No one has had their head further up their own ass than this guy has.

401
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:03:46am

re: #393 Eclectic Cyborg

Welp. Just found out someone I sat across the table from at a Christmas party this weekend tested positive for Covid this morning.

Gurk. I hope everything goes well for you and your acquaintance.

I’m off to bed. I’ll catch y’all later if I have electricity or Internet service.

402
Dr. Matt  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:03:55am

re: #389 JC1

He’s about to become a lot less rich…
teslarati.com

The only reason that TSLA stock isn’t falling through the floor despite seemingly falling demand is that investors think the slowdown is due to people delaying purchases until the new tax credit becomes available in 2023. If it turns out that it’s largely due to Tesla’s and Elon’s falling popularity, it wouldn’t surprise me if the stock falls by 90% from here.

Conservatives literally hate EVs. Does he think that becoming a rat fucking Q-tard is actually going to result in GQP Nazis flocking to the nearest Telsa dealership with their checkbooks?

403
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:04:12am

This had not been on my radar.

404
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:04:57am

re: #393 Eclectic Cyborg

Welp. Just found out someone I sat across the table from at a Christmas party this weekend tested positive for Covid this morning.

That sucks. I may skip the big family Christmas gathering this year. I’m not looking forward to being exposed to that many people, but we’re acting like covid is over now.

405
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:06:06am
406
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:06:17am

re: #402 Dr. Matt

Conservatives literally hate EVs. Does he think that becoming a rat fucking Q-tard is actually going to result in GQP Nazis flocking to the nearest Telsa dealership with their checkbooks?

It might. You’re talking about people who have no core values and just do what propagandists tell them to do. If Tucker and Sean are for EVs, they will be too.

407
JC1  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:07:21am

re: #406 Crush White Nationalism

It might. You’re talking about people who have no core values and just do what propagandists tell them to do. If Tucker and Sean are for EVs, they will be too.

Which would actually be great for the environment.

408
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:08:09am

re: #387 ckkatz

How dare communication evolve…. //

409
Barefoot Grin  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:10:18am
410
ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:10:40am

Additionally, Rick Wilson, a longtime Florida political operative, has noted that Trump has far better flying monkeys than rival DeSantis. And he seems to believe that DeSantis doesn’t stand a chance in a smear war against Trump.

411
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:11:58am

re: #410 ckkatz

Additionally, Rick Wilson, a longtime Florida political operative, has noted that Trump has far better flying monkeys than rival DeSantis. And he seems to believe that DeSantis doesn’t stand a chance in a smear war against Trump.

[Embedded content]

412
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:12:45am

re: #402 Dr. Matt

Conservatives literally hate EVs. Does he think that becoming a rat fucking Q-tard is actually going to result in GQP Nazis flocking to the nearest Telsa dealership with their checkbooks?

There are a number of conservatives around me that drive Teslas, for various reasons. I live around a lot of engineers, so new tech is cool. Not having to go to the gas station, quite nice, and it also means they’re not paying gas taxes. And while they’re not all that concerned with saving the environment, people install solar panels to reduce their electric bills.

413
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:15:12am

re: #394 Dopamine Fish

I’m sorry to hear that. I hope you are safe.

I’m vaxxed and double boosted. Feeling okay at the moment. Here’s to hoping…

414
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:19:03am

re: #250 lawhawk

Brilliant!

I’m no expert in reading those legal thingies and I don’t know who writes them (judge or her clerk), but that is an unhappy document. It’s apparent the decision is not something the judge likes and she’s hostile to it.

415
Dr. Matt  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:19:56am

re: #406 Crush White Nationalism

It might. You’re talking about people who have no core values and just do what propagandists tell them to do. If Tucker and Sean are for EVs, they will be too.

The Party of Rolling Coal and Fuck the Environment driving EVs. That would be amusing….driving Tesla’s to pwn the lbz.

416
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:20:13am
417
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:20:15am

re: #253 Dopamine Fish

I’m just going to sit quietly in the corner here, with my 40th birthday still years in front of me.

Show off. You young whippersnapper, you. 😏

418
lawhawk  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:20:51am

re: #414 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m no expert in reading those legal thingies and I don’t know who writes them (judge or her clerk), but that is an unhappy document. It’s apparent the decision is not something the judge likes and she’s hostile to it.

Of course she’s unhappy.

The tire marks over her rulings in this matter are still fresh…

She was always in the tank for Trump and the Appeals Court explicitly called her on the carpet for ignoring the facts and the law.

She has no business being on the bench.

419
Dr. Matt  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:21:50am

re: #393 Eclectic Cyborg

Welp. Just found out someone I sat across the table from at a Christmas party this weekend tested positive for Covid this morning.

Same thing happen to me (us) at a medical conference this year but our side of the table never tested positive in the long run. *Crossing fingers and toes for you*

420
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:22:43am

re: #414 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m no expert in reading those legal thingies and I don’t know who writes them (judge or her clerk), but that is an unhappy document. It’s apparent the decision is not something the judge likes and she’s hostile to it.

Clerks usually write the things, after talking to the judge to find out how the thing is supposed to go. I’m sure some judges are more detailed with their clerks than others. It wouldn’t surprise me if Loose Cannon went off on a rant at the 11th Circuit’s decision and the clerk just went, “Oooo-kayyyyyy… I’m just going to, um, write a very terse summary of the dismissal, is that alright?”

421
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:23:45am

re: #415 Dr. Matt

The Party of Rolling Coal and Fuck the Environment driving EVs. That would be amusing….driving Tesla’s to pwn the lbz.

My congresscritter is a flaming libertarian. He drives a Tesla. At his house he charges it with his home solar system. When he drives any distance and has to top up at a charging station (ie to DC when he refused to fly during the mask mandates), he brags about charging up using West Virginia coal.

422
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:25:35am
423
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:25:49am

re: #263 jeffreyw

Tragic design flaw. It read “front towards enemy” but didn’t say which side was the front.

I was waiting for it to scream RELOADO, RELOADO.

424
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:26:21am
425
Eventual Carrion  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:26:25am

re: #382 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve always been fond of this one:

[Embedded content]

I’ve also seen Helen Back.

Helen Back is our complaint coordinator. If you have any problems just go to Helen Back.

426
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:26:33am

Following up from earlier, the USPS apparently found my package, literally minutes after I reached out to the vendor to figure out what I should do. It turned up at my local post office this morning, and is apparently on the truck. My guess: Someone missed a scan somewhere, and the thing got delayed because of it.

427
Dr. Matt  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:29:39am

Click to see Elmo’s full throated rat fucker rant:

428
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:34:13am
429
Belafon  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:34:27am

re: #427 Dr. Matt

Click to see Elmo’s full throated rat fucker rant:

[Embedded content]

Someone with Kelly’s stature should ask Musk why he gets to decide that a person is referred to as he instead of she.

430
Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:34:31am

Peter Thiel’s Stooge puts this at the top of his Senate Agenda!

I got a feeling Marriott is not gonna like this…

431
Hecuba's daughter  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:36:25am

re: #393 Eclectic Cyborg

Welp. Just found out someone I sat across the table from at a Christmas party this weekend tested positive for Covid this morning.

I was at dinner last Tuesday with friends; Friday the guy who sat next to me emailed us that he just tested positive. I am feeling fine and tested negative today, but some, even though they are vaccinated and boosted, are feeling anxious about getting together. After all, my friend had 5 shots and still got ill; I had 4 vaccinations when COVID struck me in September. How cautious do we have to remain? My sister said she would be fine with a complete shutdown but not many share that view. I am still planning on getting together with friends this afternoon and (probably) this evening.

432
Dr. Matt  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:38:19am

re: #430 Joe Bacon

Peter Thiel’s Stooge puts this at the top of his Senate Agenda!

[Embedded content]

I got a feeling Marriott is not gonna like this…

LOLZ. Apparently the GQP Nazis have zero clue who resides in the GQP base: porn loving, white trash hicks who love to claim they are “God fearing Christians”.

433
Crush White Nationalism  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:41:50am

re: #425 Eventual Carrion

434
DodgerFan1988  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:45:15am
435
Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:45:46am

re: #430 Joe Bacon

As it happens, Cherie Deville is an adult entertainer.

436
Dr Lizardo  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:49:24am

re: #405 Backwoods_Sleuth

I know how this ends…..

Poltergeist Our Home Gets Destroy Scenes

437
Dr. Matt  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:49:31am

re: #434 DodgerFan1988

[Embedded content]

WTF. What is his end goal with his new radical extreme RW commentary? It is all very confounding. Is he merely trolling the Left for the sake of trolling the Left? Is he actually suffering from untreated psychosocial disorders? All of the above?

438
Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:49:50am

re: #432 Dr. Matt

LOLZ. Apparently the GQP Nazis have zero clue who resides in the GQP base: porn loving, white trash hicks who love to claim they are “God fearing Christians”.

The same folks in the Bi-Bull Belt who get off on interracial porn…

439
lawhawk  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:52:45am
440
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:52:54am

re: #342 Dangerman

whoda thunk there would be more than one like him

Ultra wealthy hateful diuchebros? Whoda thunk there weren’t more it wasn’t almost all of them?

441
Dopamine Fish  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:52:58am

re: #432 Dr. Matt

LOLZ. Apparently the GQP Nazis have zero clue who resides in the GQP base: porn loving, white trash hicks who love to claim they are “God fearing Christians”.

I was going to say, does the senator from the Great State of Denial actually understand anything about the porn market? It’s 90% married men who are sexually frustrated because their marriages are dysfunctional and they can’t find a mistress. About half of those are “good, God-fearing Christians” whose marriages are broken because they’re abusive assholes. Also, it bears repeating at this point that the porn industry is the single biggest driver of technological advancement on the Internet.

442
Dr. Matt  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:53:43am

re: #438 Joe Bacon

The same folks in the Bi-Bull Belt who get off on interracial porn…

I’m willing to bet that Ben Shaprio’s cache is filled with transgender porn.

443
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:57:20am

re: #367 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It simply amazing to watch a multi-billionaire implode in real time.

I guess we have social media to thank for that.

It would be a beautiful thing if it wasn’t doing so much damage before it dies.

444
The Ghost of a Flea  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:57:46am

re: #432 Dr. Matt

LOLZ. Apparently the GQP Nazis have zero clue who resides in the GQP base: porn loving, white trash hicks who love to claim they are “God fearing Christians”.

…and those people will continue to obtain and consume porn while it’s banned with no consequences.

I’ve lived thirty years in the Bible Belt, and the thing that people like you get wrong is that you’re never going to catch these people out on hypocrisy, nor will they ever enrage their base: they are all shamelessly in it solely for themselves.

The legislators know this policy will never be enforced evenly, and the reactionary voters know they’re never going to be targeted with the fervor that will be directed at minorities of any type.

445
calochortus  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:59:01am

re: #393 Eclectic Cyborg

Welp. Just found out someone I sat across the table from at a Christmas party this weekend tested positive for Covid this morning.

My brother and sis-in-law visited Friday and tested positive for Covid on Sat. Now we wait to see if our Christmas will be nuked out of existence. We are triple boosted, but then so are my brother and sis-in-law.

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

446
austin_blue  Dec 12, 2022 • 10:03:53am

re: #223 Dave In Austin

68 turns around the Sun today and all I would really like for my BD is a good nites sleep.

Happy Birthday, almost homeboy!

(Dave is in Lago Vista out by Lake Travis, I’m in the ‘04 in South Austin)

Many happy returns of the day! I’ll be 67 in early Aquarius, so I am comforted that you will always be my big brother.

What did you get yourself?

447
FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 12, 2022 • 10:31:06am

re: #359 No Malarkey!

A good point. However, if you think Arizona would be the 50th seat, passing up the opportunity to get dozens of lifetime federal judges confirmed just to get rid of Sinema is a high price to pay. OTOH, if you think the GOP will control the Senate whether Sinema wins or not, I would run a Democrat against her.

Issue with that is the possibility that the Democrats cave, Sinema wins, and then she opts to be the 50th seat for the GQP majority.

448
John Hughes  Dec 12, 2022 • 10:38:10am

re: #85 Joe Bacon

Thorium breeders don’t breed thorium, they breed U233.

Also, you can build a bomb out of U233.

449
austin_blue  Dec 12, 2022 • 10:41:17am

re: #428 Backwoods_Sleuth

Driving on snow is easy. Driving on 1/4” of ice covered by 4” of snow on a hill is impossible, as the video demonstrates. I love the bit where the snowplow/tractor gets caught up in it. Those are Euro/Asian minivans, btw.

450
John Hughes  Dec 12, 2022 • 10:43:03am

re: #85 Joe Bacon

Scientists hit a key milestone in the quest to create abundant zero-carbon power through nuclear fusion. But they still have a long way to go.

A very, very long way to go as they are not going in that direction.

The NIF isn’t a power reactor, it isn’t even the prototype of a power reactor, it’s nuclear bomb research.


This article has been archived.
Comments are closed.

Jump to top

Create a PageThis is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go.
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT LGF User's Guide RSS Feeds

Help support Little Green Footballs!

Subscribe now for ad-free access!Register and sign in to a free LGF account before subscribing, and your ad-free access will be automatically enabled.

Donate with
PayPal Cash.app
Recent PagesClick to refresh