Party Time With the Mavericks: Tiny Desk Concert

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Felix Contreras | December 12, 2022
When The Mavericks brought their long-running tour to the Tiny Desk, we could hear a well-oiled musical machine that has charmed audiences long enough to earn the band a lifetime achievement award from the Americana Music Association.

From the opening strains of “Back In Your Arms Again,” we are treated to one of the best voices in the U.S. — that of Raul Malo. Backed by a smooth shuffle, Malo’s voice is propelled by the subtle horn blasts that suggest a Tex-Mex border feel, driven home by the accordion.

“Mujer” is a track from the band’s 2020 album, its first album of all-Spanish material, which features the band’s personality shifting from Americana shuffles to Mexican wedding boleros.

“Come Unto Me” is a Mavericks chestnut and gives a glimpse into why the band is such a crowd favorite. The song filters that bolero feel of the previous song into a slow burner with a shouted chorus at the end that usually has the crowd on its feet and singing along.

The Mavericks are one of the best live shows out on the road these days and masters at bringing new fans into their fold. This performance gives us all a good idea of how the band weaves that magic.

SET LIST
“Back In Your Arms Again”
“Mujer”
“Come Unto Me”

MUSICIANS
Raul Malo: vocals, acoustic guitar
Eddie Perez: acoustic guitar, vocals
Jerry Dale McFadden: piano, vocals
Paul Deakin: drums
Ed Friedland: bass
Percy Cardona: accordion, vocals
Max Abrams: saxophone
Julio Díaz: trumpet, hand percussion
Lorenzo Molina: trumpet, hand percussion, vocals

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Felix Contreras
Director/Editor: Kara Frame
Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
Creative Director: Bob Boilen
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Kara Frame, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Sofia Seidel
Production Assistant: Jill Britton
Tiny Desk Team: Suraya Mohamed, Marissa Lorusso, Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

#nprmusic #tinydesk #themavericks

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324 comments
1
Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:29:35pm

SBF will testify in front of House Committee.

SBF refuses subpoena from Senate Committee.

SBF arrested in Bahamas.

Life comes at you pretty fast.

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EstebanTornado1963  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:33:09pm

Another MAGAT hack

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A Cranky One  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:39:05pm

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Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:39:55pm

Translation:.. No one, not even they, would touch the sewage he came back from Ukraine with. You remember, that nonsense he tried to sell to the right wing media as the smoking gun that would end Biden’s campaign.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:41:06pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:44:11pm

CL’d. Aminah, pbuh…

Bobo won her seat two years ago by 26,512 votes.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:50:54pm
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Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:53:09pm

re: #1 Dangerman

SBF will testify in front of House Committee.

SBF refuses subpoena from Senate Committee.

SBF arrested in Bahamas.

Life comes at you pretty fast.

1st Mistake: not paying attention and losing $25 Billion

2nd: hanging in an extradion treaty country after losing $25 Billion

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Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:54:18pm

re: #6 teleskiguy

CL’d. Aminah, pbuh…

[Embedded content]

Bobo won her seat two years ago by 26,512 votes.

And Lake wants to overturn 17k votes

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:59:10pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 5:59:44pm
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Patricia Kayden  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:00:05pm
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Cheechako  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:04:50pm

Very Interesting:

Tonga volcano eruption blasted millions of tons of water into space

The eruption of the Hunga Tonga undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean early this year was so powerful that it sent a massive plume of water vapor into space, according to new research released Monday. A volcano launching water beyond the atmosphere had never before been observed by scientists. The research underscores the unusually violent nature of the eruption - and highlights the broader risks from undersea volcanoes.

Satellite observations show that the Jan. 15 eruption propelled water vapor 93 miles off the surface of the planet, well past the generally accepted boundary of space at 100 kilometers, or about 62 miles, according to one of the studies being presented in Chicago at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:10:11pm
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darthstar  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:14:32pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:14:50pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:15:37pm

Interesting thing that happened today at the telemark binding factory. A young man and his girlfriend walked in the office, winded from climbing our flight of stairs to our door. The man had a pair of unmounted skis that looked like this…

Been a minute since I’ve seen skis with a swallowtail!

I find out that dude bought our bindings, the high end ones (retail price $750) and he wanted them mounted on his new skis. Him and his girlfriend, who quit her job last month and they’re on a big skiing roadtrip, had been driving for a day and a half from New Hampshire. He told me that the skiing conditions back east are just ludicrously horrible (too warm, no natural snow) so they’re chasing powder.

They caught their breath and I gave them a tall glass of our water from our water cooler, which is stocked with water from a spring at 10,000 feet. They said it was the best tasting water they’ve ever had.

“Come back in an hour, go get some lunch,” I said. “You’re skiing on these bastards with our clamp tomorrow.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:23:58pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:34:50pm
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retired cynic  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:36:46pm

Gratitude to Ukraine
Security, Freedom, Democracy, Courage, Pluralism, Perseverance, Generosity
Timothy Snyder
snyder.substack.com

Debts are awkward, especially debts of gratitude. When we owe others too much, we can find it hard to express our appreciation. If we are not reflective, we might minimize our debt, or simply forget it. If we think highly of ourselves, we might ignore a debt to someone we regard as less important. In the worst case, we can resent the people who have helped us, and portray them in a negative light, just to avoid the feeling that we, too, are vulnerable people who sometimes need a helping hand.

Americans (and many others) owe Ukrainians a huge debt of gratitude for their resistance to Russian aggression. For some mixture of reasons, we have difficulty acknowledging this. To do so, we have to find the words. Seven that might help are: security, freedom, democracy, courage, pluralism, perseverance, and generosity.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:38:03pm

Please enjoy this excellent drag performance:

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

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Florida Panhandler  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:42:23pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

And so the truth is now on public display for Elon.

All of it, every bit of it, is for perceived public fan-base approval.

All of it.

There is no underlying adherence or even deference to ideology, altruism, climate change, “a better world” or the human condition.

It is all simply for Elon to feel loved. Pathetic. We are in an era of technology and government where we are at the mercy of one man-child after another.

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teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:48:52pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 6:58:32pm

hi

I just returned from the Village Board meeting. It’s official: I took the affirmation of office and am seated on the board again.

The board reinstalled me as Chairman Pro-Tempore (vice-mayor if this was a bigger city).

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teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:00:58pm

Before I fell asleep at the hotel on the east side of Monarch Pass on Saturday night I found on TV an Indiana Jones marathon. I watched the last part of The Last Crusade and the beginning of The Temple of Doom and I have to say how gotdam SILLY the beginning of TTOD is.

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teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:03:52pm

Jewish doggies!

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:06:38pm

re: #26 teleskiguy

Jewish doggies!

OMG that golden doodle looks just like my granddogger Hazel.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:07:54pm
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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:12:28pm

“Elon Musk” is “Lone Skum” spelled sideways.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:13:09pm

Blizzard warning revised: Now 18-24” of snow, locally higher. We are getting snow flurries now. The state says they will not deploy snowplows in the Panhandle until the storm is over. All roads are officially closed, including Interstate 80.

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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:13:12pm

re: #28 The Pie Overlord!

Did Morrissey cry with him, as well?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:13:37pm

re: #25 teleskiguy

This is a far better version in every way.

UHF: Indiana Jones Parody (Remastered to 4K/48fps)

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teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:19:47pm

re: #27 The Pie Overlord!

What a precious doggo!!

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Dangerman  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:19:55pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:22:39pm

I’ve uttered this refrain with more frequency for some reason: We Don’t Deserve Dogs.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:31:20pm

Thank you, Henry.

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teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:45:49pm
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sizzzzlerz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:46:36pm

re: #28 The Pie Overlord!

I was yelling “Boourns”

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 12, 2022 • 7:50:16pm

re: #34 Dangerman

Looks like they’re circling back to “it was the democrats” that was their original response for a few days right afterward.

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Sherlock Hound  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:03:54pm

re: #15 darthstar

Prison wasn’t safe for Whitey Bulger.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:14:58pm

Part 2 of Talking Points Memo’s Meadows Naughty Messages!

As The 2020 Election Slipped Away, Andy Biggs And Mark Meadows Schemed To Reverse The Vote In Arizona

talkingpointsmemo.com

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retired cynic  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:15:55pm

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:16:32pm

...

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Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:17:57pm

Add In Scott Perry to TPM’s expose!

Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry’s Work To Overturn 2020 Election Included A ‘Cyber Team’ And An Italian Job

talkingpointsmemo.com

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:22:48pm

re: #43 retired cynic

I’ve always gone under the assumption that while the early bird may get the worm; The early worm gets ‘et’….

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:24:39pm

re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Congratulations on your election and appointment!

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:26:27pm

Writer John Green on Late Stage Twitter

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:28:30pm

re: #17 teleskiguy

That is a wonderful anecdote!

Not just in terms of customer service, but also in respecting the humanity of a fellow traveler on this great green earth.

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:31:34pm

re: #23 teleskiguy

Sounds like Bell is one of those people, who, if they just shut up, one would wonder if they were an idiot. But in posting, he confirmed that he was.

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:35:08pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sounds like Trump is doing messaging research. He is known for throwing lots of bs at an audience and seeing what gets a reaction.

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:38:29pm

I’m probably spending too much time on Instagram

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:42:27pm

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:44:04pm

The AI image generators are evolving rapidly, especially Stable Diffusion.

Here’s a quickie from SD2.1:

It’s as good as DALL-E 2 , though SD still takes more prompt magic than DALL-E 2.

Also, different online implementations of SD get me sometimes radically different results, even when nominally using the same prompt and seed for the same version of SD.

IMO there’s still too much variability and lack of control towards the final image.

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darthstar  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:47:32pm
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prairiefire  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:48:03pm

Thank goodness, just rain in KC.

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teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:50:17pm

re: #50 ckkatz

Sounds like Bell is one of those people, who, if they just shut up, one would wonder if they were an idiot. But in posting, he confirmed that he was.

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:50:38pm

re: #54 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

There was a stretch of time where AI generated faces had some obvious problems, strange ears, significantly weird lack of symmetry in facial features. It sounds like those issues have been addressed to the point that in smaller less detailed thumbnails, they may be indistinguishable from ‘real’ people.

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retired cynic  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:53:19pm

re: #58 ckkatz

Real people aren’t symmetrical, tho’. Take anyone’s photograph and compare the two sides.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:53:44pm

re: #58 ckkatz

For sure.

Just adding “brunette” to the previous prompt (everything else the same):

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:54:54pm

re: #59 retired cynic

Real people aren’t symmetrical, tho’. Take anyone’s photograph and compare the two sides.

Yes, in most cases.

There are people who have highly symmetrical faces. They tend to end up as models.

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 8:56:31pm

re: #57 teleskiguy

My first thought was that if you vouch for a redeeming feature this account has, I’ll happily give the account another look.

Otherwise, I’m just going to write that account off.

eta - Your word is good with me. And I respect that you may have very good reasons for following the ‘Bell’ account.

But in the absence of any other data, I’m going to go with my first impression.

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teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:02:11pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:02:45pm
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prairiefire  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:02:55pm

re: #60 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I am asymmetrical. My left side of my face is 60% to 40.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:05:11pm

Okay, my wife is making a musical commentary on my return to the village board by playing the Soviet National Anthem in the background.

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teleskiguy  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:05:48pm
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prairiefire  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:07:02pm

re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yes! Voted in? You’re worth your weight in gold. You have always contributed.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:09:21pm

re: #62 ckkatz

My first thought was that if you vouch for a redeeming feature this account has, I’ll happily give the account another look.

Otherwise, I’m just going to write that account off.

As Poe’s law says, it can be difficult to distinguish between a fanatic and a parody. I took his comments as mocking Chapelle and based on his subsequent posts that appears to be his intention.

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:09:27pm

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Blizzard warning revised: Now 18-24” of snow, locally higher. We are getting snow flurries now. The state says they will not deploy snowplows in the Panhandle until the storm is over. All roads are officially closed, including Interstate 80.

I do not know how it is in Nebraska. But here in Northern Virginia, it seems to be a civic duty, upon the forecast of snow, to immediately head to the grocery store reciting the snow mantra: “Bread, Milk, Toilet Paper”.

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darthstar  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:09:53pm

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TedStriker  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:10:37pm

re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Okay, my wife is making a musical commentary on my return to the village board by playing the Soviet National Anthem in the background.

A master class in taking the piss, right there…

;-)

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darthstar  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:11:27pm

re: #60 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

For sure.

Just adding “brunette” to the previous prompt (everything else the same):

[Embedded content]

I know her.

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:11:45pm

re: #69 Hecuba’s daughter

As Poe’s law says, it can be difficult to distinguish between a fanatic and a parody. I took his comments as mocking Chapelle and based on his subsequent posts that appears to be his intention.

I often find myself standing on the wrong side of a sarchasm.

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darthstar  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:12:15pm

re: #54 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I know her too.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:13:53pm

Sam got the sack.

Biden’s Nuclear Waste Guru Out of a Job After Alleged Luggage Theft

A Biden Administration nuclear waste official, Sam Brinton, is out of a job after being accused of stealing airport luggage in two separate incidents.

“Sam Brinton is no longer a DOE employee,” a Department of Energy spokesperson told The Daily Beast on Monday evening. “By law, the Department of Energy cannot comment further on personnel matters.”

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darthstar  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:15:07pm

re: #69 Hecuba’s daughter

As Poe’s law says, it can be difficult to distinguish between a fanatic and a parody. I took his comments as mocking Chapelle and based on his subsequent posts that appears to be his intention.

Chapelle doesn’t need mockery, he needs ridicule. Same goes for Elmo. Insults they hear should be cutting and debilitating. There should be no ‘laughing off’ of the moment. It should be a stain they wear publicly for an extended period of time with no escape.

Or maybe just ignore them - has the same effect.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:15:13pm

Looks like principal photography has wrapped on Dune: Part Two.

yahoo.com

On to post-production. Dune: Part Two is scheduled for release in November 2023.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:15:30pm

Off to work; back later.

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darthstar  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:20:27pm

I don’t click on facebook ads but I’m tempted to get some of these as gifts…just need some bird watcher friends who would appreciate them.

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prairiefire  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:21:36pm

Ok, huge temperature drop and the rain is sounding “chunky”. Eastern lizards, watch out for this bitch.

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darthstar  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:24:00pm

It’s looking like it’s time to stop following Elmo’s nonsense on Twitter.

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:24:10pm

Hard to believe it was 4-5 years ago that ai generated faces aka ‘DeepFakes’ were causing concern on social media.

Earlier this month you may have seen a website named thispersondoesnotexist.com doing the rounds, which uses AI to generate startlingly realistic fake faces. Well, here’s the sequel: whichfaceisreal.com, which lets you test your ability to distinguish AI-generated fakes from the genuine article. Just head to the site and click on who you think is the real person!

whichfaceisreal.com also has a higher purpose though. It was set up by two academics from the University of Washington, Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom, both of whom study how information spreads through society. They think the rise of AI-generated fakes could be trouble, undermining society’s trust in evidence, and want to educate the masses.

“When a new technology like this comes along, the most dangerous period is when the technology is out there but the public isn’t aware of it,” Bergstrom tells The Verge. “That’s when it can be used most effectively.”
*snip*

Can you tell the difference between a real face and an AI-generated fake?

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:26:37pm

re: #74 ckkatz

I often find myself standing on the wrong side of a sarchasm.

Decades ago Mike Royko said that he had to rethink pieces of mockery because too many readers took the columns seriously. I know that has happened to me where someone would tell me something in jest and I interpreted their words literally.

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Sherlock Hound  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:35:31pm

re: #80 darthstar

“Hey, Boobies, Hooters and Peckers, shag these for the Cocks of the Walk!”
///

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austin_blue  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:43:55pm

re: #4 Dangerman

Translation:.. No one, not even they, would touch the sewage he came back from Ukraine with. You remember, that nonsense he tried to sell to the right wing media as the smoking gun that would end Biden’s campaign.

Is it me, or is Rudi looking more and more like Skeletor?

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:45:11pm

re: #84 Hecuba’s daughter

Decades ago Mike Royko said that he had to rethink pieces of mockery because too many readers took the columns seriously. I know that has happened to me where someone would tell me something in jest and I interpreted their words literally.

Yes, Poe’s Law, as you pointed out previously.

The face-to-face indicators are already lost.

So context is even more critical. And often, researching that context is considered more costly than the perceived reward. Sometimes, when I post, I try to provide context or an indicator. Of course I have never been accused of being subtle.

It sounds like you pickup much more of this level of communication than I.

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 9:59:43pm

re: #60 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

For sure.

Just adding “brunette” to the previous prompt (everything else the same):

[Embedded content]

Reminded me of the 1970’s Cajun song by Beausoleil “Je m’endors”.

Qu’avez-vous, oui belle blonde ?
Qu’avez-vous, oui belle brune ?
C’est tout pour les blondes ;
C’est rien pour les brunes

BEAUSOLEIL - JE M’ ENDORS - 1978

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Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 10:02:10pm

re: #82 darthstar

It’s looking like it’s time to stop following Elmo’s nonsense on Twitter.

[Embedded content]

He’s gone full QAsshole.

Get off of The Bird.

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austin_blue  Dec 12, 2022 • 10:03:31pm

re: #87 ckkatz

Yes, Poe’s Law, as you pointed out previously.

The face-to-face indicators are already lost.

So context is even more critical. And often, researching that context is considered more costly than the perceived reward. Sometimes, when I post, I try to provide context or an indicator. Of course I have never been accused of being subtle.

It sounds like you pickup much more of this level of communication than I.

And yet, sometimes a comment is straight-up correct and describes a person, even if it is meant as a parody, completely correctly. I’m not sure, but I think this is defined as ironic irony.

You may discuss this pilpul at your leisure.

As for me, I am off for the rack. Sweet scaly dreams, be kind to each other, and make tomorrow better for your ‘hood.

We have that opportunity, as a City, as we are electing a new Mayor and a new Councilcritter in a runoff tomorrow.

Well not us.

We voted early.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 12, 2022 • 10:03:43pm

Cold December for us:

NWS Weekly Weather Briefing | Cool and Dry Conditions Prevail this Week

..

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ckkatz  Dec 12, 2022 • 10:17:35pm

re: #89 Joe Bacon

Joy Reid had Adam Serwer on her show Monday evening. They discussed a couple of points. And how Musk is twisting Twitter to fit those points

The first point was based on Serwer’s recent Atlantic article.

Basically, that the right wing has a right to post whatever they want. And everybody else has a right to read what the right wing posts. (But not to post anything themselves.)

And second, that basically the rightwing needs the progressives online so that the rightwing can organize and unify around attacking the progressives. Basically, that the rightwing needs victims to bully.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 10:23:13pm

re: #47 ckkatz

Congratulations on your election and appointment!

Thanks!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 10:28:30pm

re: #68 prairiefire

Yes! Voted in? You’re worth your weight in gold. You have always contributed.

Yes. The election was a landslide, and my appointment was a unanimous vote of the other four board members (I abstained).

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Joe Bacon  Dec 12, 2022 • 10:45:21pm

ON YOUR MARK, GET SET…GO!!!!!

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TedStriker  Dec 12, 2022 • 10:48:19pm

re: #95 Joe Bacon

ON YOUR MARK, GET SET…GO!!!!!

[Embedded content]

Fat-Bottomed Birds

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 11:31:59pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 11:36:34pm

Oklahoma takes ‘momentous’ step to allow taxpayer-funded religious schools (Politico)

A 15-page memo leans on a trio of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that favored religious schools and won rapt attention from conservative school choice advocates and faith groups.

(Looks like it’s time for The Satanic Temple to open a school in Oklahoma.)

Time for Protestants, atheists, and others to fund Catholic schools with their tax money. Time for Catholics, atheists, and others to fund Protestant segregation academies with their tax money.

Oklahoma’s departing attorney general just took a big step toward achieving a conservative education milestone.

A state law that blocks religious institutions and private sectarian schools from public charter school programs is likely unconstitutional and should not be enforced, Attorney General John O’Connor and Solicitor General Zach West wrote in a non-binding legal opinion this month.

Their 15-page memo leans on a trio of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that favored religious schools and won rapt attention from conservative school choice advocates and faith groups.

Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt said the advisory opinion “rightfully defends parents, education freedom, and religious liberty in Oklahoma.” Newly-elected state Superintendent Ryan Walters called it “the right decision for Oklahomans.”

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 12, 2022 • 11:42:16pm

Overnight
Snow. Patchy blowing snow after 1am. Low around 16. Windy, with a north northwest wind 25 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.
Tuesday
Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Widespread blowing snow. High near 22. Wind chill values between zero and 5. Windy, with a northwest wind 25 to 35 mph, with gusts as high as 50 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 5 to 9 inches possible.
Tuesday Night
Snow. Widespread blowing snow, mainly after 10pm. Low around 13. Wind chill values between -10 and zero. Windy, with a northwest wind 25 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.
Wednesday
A 40 percent chance of snow, mainly before 11am. Patchy blowing snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 23. Wind chill values between -10 and zero. Windy, with a northwest wind 30 to 35 mph, with gusts as high as 50 mph.
Wednesday Night
Patchy blowing snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 12. Blustery, with a northwest wind around 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph.

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A Cranky One  Dec 12, 2022 • 11:48:05pm

re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Glad you got a new furnace!

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 12, 2022 • 11:59:10pm

re: #89 Joe Bacon

He’s gone full QAsshole.

Get off of The Bird.

Yep, give it another week or so (probably before the end of the year) and Sleazy E will be tweeting WWG1WGA.

And that prediction that Tesla will oust him might well come to pass sooner than expected (was that your prediction, BTW? I forgot now who posted it). It’s increasingly clear that Musk is quickly becoming a major liability and the Tesla board might well find themselves pushed into a position where they’ll have to do something about it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 12:02:13am

He was hanged for the Iranian crime of “moharebeh” (waging war against God)

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 13, 2022 • 12:54:01am

“And don’t you eat that yellow snow”

Chicago Police officer Henry Capouch was arrested recently for urinating in the ice machine at Jimmy B’s Bar inside the Beachcomber Hotel in St. Pete Beach, Florida. It is alleged that a hotel employee discovered Capouch “pissing in the ice machine” and told him to stop. Capouch allegedly responded by shoving the employee and cursing at him before leaving the scene but without fleeing far enough. The employee and a security guard quickly led deputies on a low speed manhunt resulting in the the discovery of Capouch on a nearby beach with his girlfriend where he was arrested on charges of battery and disorderly conduct.

copblaster.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 13, 2022 • 1:21:05am

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In the Bleak Midwinter (New Setting by Rebecca Dale)




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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 1:26:56am

Since holiday hymns being put here, I’ll toss one on fire for the season (Advent).

(4:16)

Robert Shaw - O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 1:29:58am

Or more appropriate for where I live now (2:38)

Frank Sinatra - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Official Music Video)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 2:02:30am

Whelp, it’s starting. The Alliance Electric Department (the public power district for the next county north) is reporting the power is out in Alliance due to the blizzard.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 13, 2022 • 2:05:14am

re: #43 retired cynic

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The early bird may get the worm, but the second rat gets the cheese.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 2:23:30am

(video, 1:19)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 2:32:33am

(Investing, nine minutes ago)

US DOJ split over charging Binance in the 2018 AML investigation: Report

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is nearing the completion of its investigation into cryptocurrency exchange Binance, which started in 2018. A report from Reuters suggests there is a conflict among US prosecutors over whether the gathered evidence is enough to press criminal charges against the crypto exchange and its executive or not.

The 2018 investigation revolve around Binance’s compliance with the U.S. anti-money laundering (AML) laws and sanctions. The U.S. prosecutors were investigating charges related to unlicensed money transmission, money laundering conspiracy and criminal sanctions violations.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 2:36:04am
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Eventual Carrion  Dec 13, 2022 • 2:36:34am

A 5/6 day on the Wordle thing.

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TarHellion  Dec 13, 2022 • 2:44:00am

A solid start. Just a lot of possibilities and got out with the par. This strange, yellow disk finally returned in the sky yesterday. Was afraid we were gonna turn into mole people due to the lack of sunlight.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 3:02:08am

Played vocabulary porn while I still have power.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 3:05:10am

Yay. Sleet and freezing fog. 21°F/-6°Commie.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 3:09:07am

Current local weather from the BBC, one hour ago, with maps and satellite imagery. (Video, 1:25)

bbc.com

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 13, 2022 • 3:09:57am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yay. Sleet and freezing fog. 21°F/-6°Commie.

Is 28F so far this morning here in NW PA. But fairly dry, so a dry cold.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 13, 2022 • 3:18:10am

Bleh. And my day is already starting off badly, even before this.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 3:32:33am

That’s enough Internet.

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Axolotl  Dec 13, 2022 • 3:37:50am

re: #69 Hecuba’s daughter

As Poe’s law says, it can be difficult to distinguish between a fanatic and a parody. I took his comments as mocking Chapelle and based on his subsequent posts that appears to be his intention.

It was obvious parody.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 13, 2022 • 3:49:45am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A Florida man was arrested after having sex with a goldendoodle in front of children while taking the dog out for a walk before he ran to a nearby church, wrecked a nativity scene and attempted to steal a car. What in the actual fuck.

Well, it’s rather self-explanatory, isn’t it?

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darthstar  Dec 13, 2022 • 3:54:07am

re: #120 Axolotl

It was obvious parody.

Anybody who knows who Carlin was knows he would be disgusted by Musk.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 13, 2022 • 4:03:01am

That was quick….

Eva Kaili has been removed from office by the European Parliament after a majority voted on Tuesday morning to oust her from her position as vice president. The move came soon after the heads of all political groups of the European Parliament agreed to remove her from the body.

The motion to end her term early was backed by 625 MEPs, while one voted against and two abstained.

A two-thirds majority was required for her to cease being one of the body’s 14 vice presidents.

Who is Eva Kaili?

The 44-year-old Greek Social Democrat was arrested in Belgium on Friday over allegations she was part of a group accepting bribes from Qatar in exchange for promoting policies friendly to the Gulf state.

Kaili has already been suspended from her duties and is in police custody. More information about specific criminal charges against her are due to be announced on Wednesday, Belgian officials have said.

dw.com

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 4:07:21am

i won’t wear a seat belt. Period.

I won’t wash my hands after the bathroom. Period.

I won’t brush my teeth. Period.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 13, 2022 • 4:14:58am

I’m starting to mask again, even though I’m fully boosted and have had a flu shot. Neither is 100%.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 13, 2022 • 4:26:50am
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darthstar  Dec 13, 2022 • 4:29:55am

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No Malarkey!  Dec 13, 2022 • 4:29:59am

re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(video, 1:19)

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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 4:39:21am
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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 4:43:52am

“Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world,” the comedian Dave Chappelle roared on stage at the Chase Center in San Francisco as he invited the Twitter owner out to join him on Sunday night.

For the first couple of seconds Musk appeared ready to accept a euphoric welcome from the crowd of 18,000. He raised his arms high in the air and spun around as though he’d just scored a World Cup decider.

Then the booing started. And it continued. And it got louder. And louder. For the best part of 10 minutes Musk was given a real-time readout of his current popularity ratings…

A normally irrepressible Musk seemed to be dumbstruck by the booing. He remained speechless, only opening his mouth to cry for help: “Dave, what shall I say?”

“Don’t say nothing,” Chappelle counseled. “You hear that sound, Elon? That’s the sound of pending civil unrest.”

At least there was alternative facts to fall back on. By Monday morning Musk had perked up and was busily rewriting history. The deafening noise, he reassured his Twitter followers, had in fact been “90% cheers & 10% boos”.

Tell that to James Yu, a writer who was in the crowd on Sunday. “A good 80% of the stadium boos,” he estimated, noting that once the jeering started Musk withered on stage and turned “into a corncob”.

theguardian.com

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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 4:57:43am
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ericblair  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:04:50am

re: #126 No Malarkey!

I’m not sure “the industry will collapse unless you let us break money laundering rules with impunity” is a very compelling argument.

I’m thinking that telling the Fucking Justice Department “applying the law to our industry will ruin it” will not give the Fucking Justice Department a very good impression of your industry. And, after some reflection, it might encourage them a bit to look at what your industry is actually doing. Just a thought.

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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:10:58am

Starting the morning in DFW with tornado warnings in Denton country. Luckily that’s north of us but yeah:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:19:07am

Today’s random recognition of karma points goes to one of our old-timers here, Teleskiguy, who currently has 206,124 upfists.

Mr. Guy can exchange those points for deep powder to shred at the ski resort of his choice.

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:26:43am

re: #132 ericblair

I’m thinking that telling the Fucking Justice Department “applying the law to our industry will ruin it” will not give the Fucking Justice Department a very good impression of your industry. And, after some reflection, it might encourage them a bit to look at what your industry is actually doing. Just a thought.

we cant do what we want without special treatment
or
what we’re doing is not legal
or
if we had to follow the law we’d fail
or
we’re successful because we cheat
or

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:29:38am
“Lackluster candidates nearly cost Republicans what once looked like a can’t-miss House majority. Inside the party, discussions about how to keep that from happening again in 2024 have already started,” Politico reports.

“The GOP gained control of Congress thanks to wins by some of their strongest recruits in years, a cohort that included decorated military veterans and a first-generation American. But far-right, inexperienced and Donald Trump-endorsed candidates lost other winnable seats across the country from Ohio to Michigan to Washington State.”

and the loonies that did survive are trying to dictate who the speaker will be and what the agenda will be

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:33:10am
“The Covid-19 vaccines have kept more than 18.5 million people in the US out of the hospital and saved more than 3.2 million lives, a new study says - and that estimate is most likely a conservative one,” CNN reports.

Covid Vaccines: 3M+ saved
Trump Virus: 1M+ lost

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:34:08am
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jeffreyw  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:37:15am

Gumbo

Good morning!

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No Malarkey!  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:38:12am

The reactionary federal judge in Texas who infamously forced the Biden Administration to negotiate with Mexico to maintain Trump’s “stay in Mexico” policy may soon revoke FDA approval of an abortion drug at the behest of forced birthers, effectively making it illegal nation-wide.

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lawhawk  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:38:23am

re: #137 Dangerman

I remember when the health experts were saying that worst case scenarios would be 250k dead or 500k dead, and Trump took that on as a challenge and beat it handily.

Had we followed health expert guidance, we’d have seen a fraction of the death toll and economic harms. Had we followed the Washington State model, we’d have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Trump and the GOP went all in on the death cult - ignoring health and safety laws to maximize the body count.

This will stay with us for a long time to come, as life expectancy in the US has dropped precipitously and has yet to recover, the deaths keep piling up, especially among GOPers who refuse to vaccinate or mask, and other diseases are making comebacks because vaccination efforts are derailed due to GOP politicizing vaccinations in a way that harms everyone.

The GOP are actively trying to undermine US military readiness by fighting vaccination mandates in the military. They’re fighting vaccination mandates in the courts, and that will make fighting the next pandemic even more difficult because that’s what the GOP does. They don’t give a shit about how many people die, get sick, or quit/lose their jobs because of shitty working conditions where employers don’t care about worker health or safety.

And the worst GOP ideas are the ones that seem to get egged on by the fever swamps, so they get more extreme with each passing iteration.

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lawhawk  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:39:41am

Inflation rate increase is smallest in a year.

Dropping energy prices is a big factor. Demand for goods and services remains strong, all while supply is tight.

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:42:47am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:43:22am

re: #133 Belafon

Starting the morning in DFW with tornado warnings in Denton country. Luckily that’s north of us but yeah:

Double yikes. Stay safe.

We’re approaching dawn, and the sleet changed over to heavy snow with freezing fog. The wind is starting to pick up after being calm overnight.

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lawhawk  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:43:30am
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lawhawk  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:45:42am

GOP fascist/misogynist judges are coming for reproductive health and birth control.

If Dobbs doesn’t convince you that the GOP are totally intent on gutting a woman’s agency over their bodies and their rights and bodily autonomy, the fact that the right wingers are going after birth control with intent on overturning Griswold and a whole line of cases granting women rights should:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 5:48:08am

The radar from the National Weather Service in Cheyenne looks like a snow hurricane.

radar.weather.gov

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No Malarkey!  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:01:39am

The Covid vaccines are conservatively estimated to have saved over 3 million lives and prevented over 18 million hospitalizations in the US alone. And yet only about 14% of the populace have gotten the bivalent boosters.

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lawhawk  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:06:44am

This is what happens when medical implant businesses go bankrupt and the patients with their devices have to live with consequences of being early adopters:

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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:15:38am

re: #146 lawhawk

To go all NYT Pitchbot: Whether it’s liberal judges making sure people can vote or conservative judges taking away the rights of women, activist judges on both sides are making it more likely our democracy won’t survive.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:16:11am

re: #149 lawhawk

This is what happens when medical implant businesses go bankrupt and the patients with their devices have to live with consequences of being early adopters:

Your medical system on capitalism.

This is not new. The same thing happened with the manufacturer of iron lungs for people with polio or permanently injured by it.

Originally those devices were sold to individuals with a lifetime warranty of service and repair.

As people naturally died and the number of people using iron lungs dropped, the company which made them created a separate company to conduct the repairs and service, transferred all their money to the parent medical equipment manufacturer, and shortly the service company went bankrupt.

Sorry, folks, your breathing was orphaned.

There is a fellow who got his hands on the original specs and schematics for the machines, and voluntarily services the few remaining machines still in use as a charity.

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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:16:51am

re: #146 lawhawk

GOP fascist/misogynist judges are coming for reproductive health and birth control.

If Dobbs doesn’t convince you that the GOP are totally intent on gutting a woman’s agency over their bodies and their rights and bodily autonomy, the fact that the right wingers are going after birth control with intent on overturning Griswold and a whole line of cases granting women rights should:

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:21:28am

re: #142 lawhawk

Inflation rate increase is smallest in a year.

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Dropping energy prices is a big factor. Demand for goods and services remains strong, all while supply is tight.

The other side: costs go up again last month!! That makes x months in a row without a decrease!!!

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:24:11am

re: #148 No Malarkey!

The Covid vaccines are conservatively estimated to have saved over 3 million lives and prevented over 18 million hospitalizations in the US alone. And yet only about 14% of the populace have gotten the bivalent boosters.

Our lives were already saved. It’s over. //

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:31:14am
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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:31:26am
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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:32:48am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:36:47am

re: #67 teleskiguy

As a chemist, who is an Aquarius with OCD, the ‘sodium chlorine’ gives me hives.

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:43:07am

re: #153 Dangerman

The other side: costs go up again last month!! That makes x months in a row without a decrease!!!

Yahoo finance:

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) in November showed a 7.1% increase over last year and 0.1% increase over the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. Economists had expected prices to rise at an annual 7.3% clip and 0.3% month-over-month, per Bloomberg data.

…

While November’s figures showed a modest deceleration in inflation, the costs of essential items and housing facing U.S. consumers still remain stubbornly high and well above the Federal Reserve’s long-term price stability target of 2%.

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lawhawk  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:49:47am
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HRH Stanley Sea  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:49:51am
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Eventual Carrion  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:53:12am

This one took me a second or two.

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Jay C  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:54:10am

re: #160 lawhawk

A good thing that The Netherlands is recognizing their culpability in fostering slavery and the slave trade for all those years, but….
The Dutch didn’t abolish slavery until 1873?

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HRH Stanley Sea  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:54:36am
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lawhawk  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:54:41am

re: #162 Eventual Carrion

This one took me a second or two.

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No one said there’d be MATH!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 6:58:22am

Blizzard warning update: New snow accumulation 24-36” through Wednesday night, locally higher. Winds 50mph with gusts to 65mph.

Looking out this morning, there is an unbroken layer of snow … no tracks in the streets, no pedestrian tracks, not even rabbit tracks. Everything and everyone is hunkered down.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:02:22am

re: #161 HRH Stanley Sea

Might make him more amiable about a trip to the vet. Just going to get his fix rather than fixed.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:04:45am

A birdle on another wild swing.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:07:17am

A friend of mine arrived at her AirBNB last night and found herself very hungry. However, the weather outside royally sucked and she had just driven 10 hours and really didn’t feel like going out again.

So she started poking around the cabinets in the kitchen and found some gummy bears.

I’m sure you can guess the rest of the story.

After she told me this, I’m like: “Why would you eat food having NO idea where it came from??”

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:07:59am

Silhouette cat

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:08:06am

re: #124 Dangerman

Liz Wheeler—I won’t wear a mask. Period.

We’re in the FA portion of the card. Tune in when the FO inevitably comes about. Then the money beg on GoFundMe or whinging “how could I have possibly known it would be so bad?”

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jeffreyw  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:13:26am

re: #166 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Blizzard warning update: New snow accumulation 24-36” through Wednesday night, locally higher. Winds 50mph with gusts to 65mph.

Looking out this morning, there is an unbroken layer of snow … no tracks in the streets, no pedestrian tracks, not even rabbit tracks. Everything and everyone is hunkered down.

bobcat in new snow

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:15:52am

re: #124 Dangerman

i won’t wear a seat belt. Period.

I won’t wash my hands after the bathroom. Period.

I won’t brush my teeth. Period.

There was just as much protest against seat belts when they were mandated.

Peter Hegseth of FOX News Channel proudly stated on the air he doesn’t wash his hands. A Republican legislator proposed removing signs in work places mandating wash their hands before returning to work because your employer/government shouldn’t be able to tell you what to do.

I’m not sure if there was any resistance to brushing teeth, but when it was shown fluoride was effective in combating dental caries, the John Birch Society started conspiracies about toothpaste and water treatment which continue to this day.

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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:17:08am

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There was just as much protest against seat belts when they were mandated.

Peter Hegseth of FOX News Channel proudly stated on the air he doesn’t wash his hands. A Republican legislator proposed removing signs in work places mandating wash their hands before returning to work because your employer/government shouldn’t be able to tell you what to do.

I’m not sure if there was any resistance to brushing teeth, but when it was shown fluoride was effective in combating dental caries, the John Birch Society started conspiracies about toothpaste and water treatment which continue to this day.

And there were protests against masks during the 1918 flu pandemic, and against the polio vaccines in the 50s.

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A Cranky One  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:20:57am

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:21:39am

re: #164 HRH Stanley Sea

Coach Leach was at Kentucky my Freshman year. A unique man. Lots about him a liked. Lots that I disliked. Got a few stories that would be better to share at a different time, as they are not all flattering.

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steve_davis  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:29:18am

re: #25 teleskiguy

Before I fell asleep at the hotel on the east side of Monarch Pass on Saturday night I found on TV an Indiana Jones marathon. I watched the last part of The Last Crusade and the beginning of The Temple of Doom and I have to say how gotdam SILLY the beginning of TTOD is.

you are disturbed by the rubber raft going out the back of the plane and not managing to kill any of them, or bounce them out of the thing on impact? Just wait until you hit the ending, where they literally jump track in a rickety mining car, and then somehow manage to exit the thing as it goes shooting out the side of the mountain. they’re completely uninjured, of course.

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JC1  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:32:13am

re: #149 lawhawk

This is what happens when medical implant businesses go bankrupt and the patients with their devices have to live with consequences of being early adopters:

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Whatever regulatory agency oversees this should require a lifetime of support. This is ridiculous.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:34:54am

re: #155 Barefoot Grin

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JC1  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:35:21am

re: #162 Eventual Carrion

This one took me a second or two.

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Yeah, would be better if they had crowns or something. Don’t look very royal.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:37:34am

re: #176 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Would love to hear at a later date.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:41:33am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sleazy E is finding out that good help is hard to find especially when the boss is known to be a world crass asshole.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:42:40am

re: #149 lawhawk

This is what happens when medical implant businesses go bankrupt and the patients with their devices have to live with consequences of being early adopters:

Queue NEURALINK after musty goes down, assuming it ever gets off the ground floor out of the basement. And what happens when that shit catches on fire in your head? Yeah, it’s pretty small, but elmo must…

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wrenchwench  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:43:26am

re: #175 A Cranky One

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luka bloom - the acoustic motorbike

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:44:23am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:44:46am

re: #183 Colère Tueur de Lapin

What about IoT stuff?

Let’s say you have a security system. Security company goes bankrupt. Some time after, you go out running errands and the security system fucks up and locks you out of your house.

Now, you have to break in to your own home and there’s no one to go after for the related costs.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:46:50am

re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Worth noting MERS is also caused by a Coronavirus.

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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:51:44am

re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg

What about IoT stuff?

Let’s say you have a security system. Security company goes bankrupt. Some time after, you go out running errands and the security system fucks up and locks you out of your house.

Now, you have to break in to your own home and there’s no one to go after for the related costs.

I didn’t find out until six months after that the air conditioning company that I had a ten year warranty with (with 4 years left) had gone bankrupt.

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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:53:56am

re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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If I believed in a god, I’d be wondering if they are trying to find a virus that will make people understand that you have to pay attention to the scientists.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:57:16am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:58:47am

re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg

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JC1  Dec 13, 2022 • 7:58:48am

re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg

What about IoT stuff?

Let’s say you have a security system. Security company goes bankrupt. Some time after, you go out running errands and the security system fucks up and locks you out of your house.

Now, you have to break in to your own home and there’s no one to go after for the related costs.

I bought an awesome, super accurate sleep tracker around 5 years ago. the hardware is a disc that goes under the mattress. It worked really well, but the analysis was done in the cloud. When the company discontinued the product, it became useless. Still annoyed about it, lol.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:01:24am

re: #192 JC1

I bought an awesome, super accurate sleep tracker around 5 years ago. the hardware is a disc that goes under the mattress. It worked really well, but the analysis was done in the cloud. When the company discontinued the product, it became useless. Still annoyed about it, lol.

The first CPAP machine my wife owned was orphaned when the company went out of business.

Fortunately, CHAMPUS will replace orphan tech when that happens.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:01:40am

re: #191 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Tech enthusiast and worker: Much of my home is automated, with physical switches present for when the tech fails due to back-end outages.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:02:47am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:03:47am

re: #191 Colère Tueur de Lapin

As a tech worker myself, I absolutely love that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:04:41am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:05:46am

re: #192 JC1

I bought an awesome, super accurate sleep tracker around 5 years ago. the hardware is a disc that goes under the mattress. It worked really well, but the analysis was done in the cloud. When the company discontinued the product, it became useless. Still annoyed about it, lol.

I bought a Kickstarter project box that helped keep unwanted traffic off local network, along with a lifetime upgrade to the protocols. After about 18 months, the company shit down because their business model was unsustainable. El boxxo became a brick because of said protocol changes.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:07:13am

re: #198 Colère Tueur de Lapin

I bought a Kickstarter box that helped keep unwanted traffic off local network, along with a lifetime upgrade to the protocols. After about 18 months, the company shit down because their business model was unsustainable. El boxxo became a brick because of said protocol changes.

This is why any marketing/sales guy who wants to offer a “lifetime” anything deserves a stiff punch to the jaw.

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JC1  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:07:24am

re: #194 Crush White Nationalism

Tech enthusiast and worker: Much of my home is automated, with physical switches present for when the tech fails due to back-end outages.

I liked some of the old school x10 stuff. I avoid cloud connected house stuff, especially the Alexa/Google assistant gizmos.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:08:10am

Current local road conditions on US-26 via traffic cam. Entire length is closed from the start at Oshkosh to the Wyoming border.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:08:28am

re: #199 Eclectic Cyborg

This is why any marketing/sales guy who wants to offer a “lifetime” anything deserves a stiff punch to the jaw.

Yeah, lessons learned.

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wrenchwench  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:08:52am

re: #202 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Yeah, lessons learned.

Something Wrong With Everything

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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:11:13am

re: #194 Crush White Nationalism

Tech enthusiast and worker: Much of my home is automated, with physical switches present for when the tech fails due to back-end outages.

I’m thinking of buying one of the newer routers, which I feel has enough security built in I can actually hook my thermostats to it so that I don’t have to keep resetting the time every time the power goes out.

I will never own an electric door lock.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:13:37am

re: #199 Eclectic Cyborg

This is why any marketing/sales guy who wants to offer a “lifetime” anything deserves a stiff punch to the jaw.

I am hoping my “free lifetime unlimited supercharging” from Tesla lasts until at least another company comes out with something = to or better than my Model 3 Performance. Not going to lie. Best car I’ve ever owned, but knowing who it represents now has taken much of the joy out of owning it.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:14:32am

Well this sucks.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:16:36am

re: #200 JC1

I liked some of the old school x10 stuff. I avoid cloud connected house stuff, especially the Alexa/Google assistant gizmos.

I was doing some housecleaning last weekend and threw away all my old X10 devices.

Alexa and Hue are much better. I can shift my lights toward red when the sun goes down, and I can adjust the fans that keep me comfortable while active in VR with voice commands.

Since they legalized weed in my state, I’m not committing any crimes, and I’m not doing any business planning out loud here, so Alexa isn’t an issue.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:18:47am

re: #206 The Pie Overlord!

Well this sucks.

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Twitter’s gone. I think it’s better to not care about which dirtbags are being invited back onto a site that’s been completely wrecked by an oligarch.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:19:20am

re: #206 The Pie Overlord!

Well this sucks.

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Gee I wonder why it took so long for Sleazy E to let Chuck C back on?

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lizardofid  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:19:58am

re: #164 HRH Stanley Sea

RIP Coach, Swing your sword.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:20:20am

Conditions are slightly better in SE Wyoming at the moment. I-80 is open between Pine Bluffs (on the state line with Nebraska) and the west side of Cheyenne. I-80 between Cheyenne and Utah is closed.

Archer Blvd., east side of Cheyenne on I-80. The route is open.

wyoroad.info

Pine Bluffs, Wyoming (NE Mile 0), looking east. The gates are down, Nebraska is closed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:20:56am

re: #209 Joe Bacon

Gee I wonder why it took so long for Sleazy E to let Chuck C back on?

Too many Nazis, not enough time.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:21:06am

On the topic of defunct technology, anyone remember the CueCat? It was a cat-shaped barcode reader wand that was supposed to be The Next Big Thing (tm) in marketing. It was essentially the predecessor to QR codes; companies would generate barcodes that the device would convert into a Web URL to take you to their page.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:22:34am

re: #213 Dopamine Fish

On the topic of defunct technology, anyone remember the CueCat? It was a cat-shaped barcode reader wand that was supposed to be The Next Big Thing (tm) in marketing. It was essentially the predecessor to QR codes; companies would generate barcodes that the device would convert into a Web URL to take you to their page.

Ah yes…the same guy who ran the Cyber Ninjas fiasco in Arizona.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:24:51am

re: #209 Joe Bacon

Gee I wonder why it took so long for Sleazy E to let Chuck C back on?

Vicious Babushka is still banned, but I haven’t asked for her to be reinstated.

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Jay C  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:25:25am

re: #209 Joe Bacon

Gee I wonder why it took so long for Sleazy E to let Chuck C back on?

Probably had to sift thru the applications for 300 sockpuppet accounts.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:25:34am

re: #213 Dopamine Fish

On the topic of defunct technology, anyone remember the CueCat? It was a cat-shaped barcode reader wand that was supposed to be The Next Big Thing (tm) in marketing. It was essentially the predecessor to QR codes; companies would generate barcodes that the device would convert into a Web URL to take you to their page.

People got a lot of use out of those things, just not the use the manufacturer intended.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:25:47am

re: #204 Belafon

I’m thinking of buying one of the newer routers, which I feel has enough security built in I can actually hook my thermostats to it so that I don’t have to keep resetting the time every time the power goes out.

I will never own an electric door lock.

My electronic thermostat uses batteries. It has an IoT wireless circuit card in it, which is disabled with prejudice. The installer unplugged and removed the card.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:27:57am

re: #214 Joe Bacon

Ah yes…the same guy who ran the Cyber Ninjas fiasco in Arizona.

I had one; it might still be around in a box in my parents’ house. My first job was working for a man who ran a hardware store, and he had a Radio Shack display in one corner. He gave me the device and told me to figure the thing out. I never did actually get anywhere with it, since I didn’t understand that it used proprietary bar codes, and that the company was already on its way out by the time I received it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:30:16am

re: #213 Dopamine Fish

On the topic of defunct technology, anyone remember the CueCat? It was a cat-shaped barcode reader wand that was supposed to be The Next Big Thing (tm) in marketing. It was essentially the predecessor to QR codes; companies would generate barcodes that the device would convert into a Web URL to take you to their page.

Yup. A security breech of private information doomed the company.

The CueCat connected to computers, in the same way as a keystroke logger, as a pass-through, between the keyboard PS/2 jack and the motherboard PS/2 port (due to USB-PS/2 compatibility, USB-PS/2 adapters may be additionally used). CRQ (“see our cue”), the desktop software, intercepted the data from both the keyboard and the CueCat, before passing it on to the operating system. Versions for both Windows 32-bit or Mac OS 9 were included. Users of this software were required to register with their ZIP code, gender, and email address. This registration process enabled the device to deliver relevant content to a single or multiple users in a household.

Privacy groups warned that it could be used to track readers’ online behavior because each unit has a unique identifier.[35] Belo officials said they would not track individual CueCat users but would gather anonymous information grouped by age, gender and ZIP code.[11]

In September 2000, security watchdog website securitywatch.com notified[36] Digital Convergence of a security vulnerability on the Digital Convergence website that exposed private information about CueCat users.[37] Digital Convergence immediately shut down that part of their website, and their investigation concluded that approximately 140,000 CueCat users who had registered their CueCat were exposed to a breach that revealed their name, email address, age range, gender and zip code. This was not a breach of the main user database itself, but a flat text file used only for reporting purposes that was generated by ColdFusion code that was saved on a publicly available portion of the Digital Convergence web server.

This failure was given a multi-citation Octopus TV “Failure Award” regarding brands that failed to take off and were hacked.[38]

en.wikipedia.org

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Dave In Austin  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:31:13am

re: #209 Joe Bacon

Gee I wonder why it took so long for Sleazy E to let Chuck C back on?

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Joe Bacon  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:33:35am

re: #221 Dave In Austin

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Oh Chuck C doesn’t realize that he has to kiss Sleazy E’s ass to stay on The Bird.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:33:53am

I think CCJs original account is still banned. He’s apparently opened a new one under the (probably accurate) belief that Musk will allow him to stay.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:35:05am

re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg

I think CCJs original account is still banned. He’s apparently opened a new one under the (probably accurate) belief that Musk will allow him to stay.

He knows that the team responsible for removing people like him has been fired.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:37:28am

re: #224 Crush White Nationalism

He knows that the team responsible for removing people like him has been fired.

Probably worth a link posted to his account from the LGF article here detailing his long history of ban evasion and Holocaust denial.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:38:38am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:42:20am

re: #112 Eventual Carrion

A 5/6 day on the Wordle thing.

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Me too

Click to Reveal

Wordle 542 5/6

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⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩⬜🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

One of those with many choices when you had 1/3/5

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austin_blue  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:43:27am

re: #133 Belafon

Starting the morning in DFW with tornado warnings in Denton country. Luckily that’s north of us but yeah:

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And more ‘Nader Warnings in far north Texas are threatening the villages of Bug Tussle and Tigertown!

alerts-v2.weather.gov

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:44:13am

The first, nice symmetrical one I’ve had in awhile.

Wordle 542 3/6

🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟨⬜🟩⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:45:32am

re: #226 Joe Bacon

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This is in the latest dispatch from Talking Points Memo from GA rep Rick Allen:

“Mark, please know that I have prayed for President Trump, his family, for you and the entire Administration. Our Nation is at war, it is a Spiritual War at the highest level. This is not a war that can be fought conventionally, this is God’s battle and He has used President Trump in a powerful way to expose the deceit, lies and hypocrisy of the enemy. The Trump family and all of us have paid a heavy price to be used by the Father but the War is just beginning. We have had a major set back and people are taking sides, and my plea to my fellow believers who want to cut and run is judge not less you be judged, we have all fallen short of the Glory of Almighty God. What I heard during my prayers is the Trump family and the Administration need to be surrounded by those great Pastors and Evangelicals who have snd continue to love and support them. President Trump need to be ministered to, he needs the love that only Jesus Christ offers! This is his opportunity to confess that he can no longer fight this battle alone, he must give it to Christ and Gid almighty will show him the way to victory. I will continue to pray for all of you, please let me know how I can help??”

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:46:33am

re: #125 Barefoot Grin

I’m starting to mask again, even though I’m fully boosted and have had a flu shot. Neither is 100%.

The COVID inoculations protect you from hospitalization and death; they don’t seem to be particularly effective at protecting you from infection and illness.

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wrenchwench  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:48:09am

re: #229 Eclectic Cyborg

The first, nice symmetrical one I’ve had in awhile.

Wordle 542 3/6

🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟨⬜🟩⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Nice. Wait, you said ‘nice’. Beauty.

There’s nothing wrong with a 4, but guess 4 should have been my guess 2. For reasons.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 542 4/6*

🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩⬛🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:52:36am

Wordle sucks, but Twitter sucks more.

TWFTa25CVDBoQlNwNkcxc2trNXNaOGpTZEJCYUVjMjZuNmR1R0RVcUZjUzBKeG1XNzNkeEsyN2duV1M2NnlZRjFLa3ZpMHQ4dzRod3gvMEsxNC9wdEsxMHJCZjVKSWxaU0VlK3JlNUZDejB5d05WUWFET3MwdWFuY3o4UmdWLzBHay94WmZ4YUV0WkR2SHRZWG82Qk9YcmpFRzZSdVE4RUlvdkI1K3l3b2dKamY4a1gxTXV2MXRtRlJrUmtNekUrOjo6Nv1nk4JXv7BQqYTNHI3R

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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:52:56am

re: #231 Hecuba’s daughter

The COVID inoculations protect you from hospitalization and death; they don’t seem to be particularly effective at protecting you from infection and illness.

They can’t protect you from inhaling the virus. As I have said, they’re not little sharks with lasers floating around your head. They have trained your body to respond to the virus as quickly as it can, but it’s still up to the human body to react to it. But they have significantly lowered the risk of significant and sever illness for those who are vaccinated.

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:53:49am

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There was just as much protest against seat belts when they were mandated.

Peter Hegseth of FOX News Channel proudly stated on the air he doesn’t wash his hands. A Republican legislator proposed removing signs in work places mandating wash their hands before returning to work because your employer/government shouldn’t be able to tell you what to do.

I’m not sure if there was any resistance to brushing teeth, but when it was shown fluoride was effective in combating dental caries, the John Birch Society started conspiracies about toothpaste and water treatment which continue to this day.

you can take any risk you want, as long as it doesnt affect anyone else

you cant force me to take a risk against my will.
nor out of ignorance (ie restaurant workers not adhering to the health code)

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Teukka  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:55:51am

Looks like recently in an attempt to “stop bots” Twitter accidentally shut off support to Asian cell carriers…
Like, for example, all of India was dumped.
And it appears certain keywords are banned in India…

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:56:37am

re: #188 Belafon

I didn’t find out until six months after that the air conditioning company that I had a ten year warranty with (with 4 years left) had gone bankrupt.

ditto.
and ours was recommended / overseen by a quite large and well known company

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lawhawk  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:57:28am

This happened in November, but is getting news attention now:

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:58:03am

re: #237 Dangerman

ditto.
and ours was recommended / overseen by a quite large and well known company

That reminds me, did Carrier bring back all those jobs from Mexico to Indiana like Trump promised?

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:59:01am

re: #199 Eclectic Cyborg

This is why any marketing/sales guy who wants to offer a “lifetime” anything deserves a stiff punch to the jaw.

oh, you thought they meant your lifetime…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 8:59:49am

re: #237 Dangerman

ditto.
and ours was recommended / overseen by a quite large and well known company

Customer purchases device with a lifetime warranty.

Device fails two years later.

“Obviously it’s useful lifetime is over.”

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HRH Stanley Sea  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:01:28am

re: #230 Barefoot Grin

FREAK

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Joe Bacon  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:01:36am

re: #230 Barefoot Grin

More proof that Right Wing Jesus makes you really, really stupid.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:02:02am

re: #239 Barefoot Grin

That reminds me, did Carrier bring back all those jobs from Mexico to Indiana like Trump promised?

They kept half the jobs in Indiana, after both Trump and Pence promised giant tax breaks.

en.wikipedia.org

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Axolotl  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:02:33am

re: #124 Dangerman

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i won’t wear a seat belt. Period.

I won’t wash my hands after the bathroom. Period.

I won’t brush my teeth. Period.

In 2004 there was resistance to say belts.

This is a link to the “anti seat belt ” activists death in a car accident. He wasn’t wearing a seat belt.

snopes.com

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:05:38am

re: #244 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They kept half the jobs in Indiana, after both Trump and Pence promised giant tax breaks.

en.wikipedia.org

Well, that’s something (more than I expected, tbh).

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:07:12am

re: #234 Belafon

They can’t protect you from inhaling the virus. As I have said, they’re not little sharks with lasers floating around your head. They have trained your body to respond to the virus as quickly as it can, but it’s still up to the human body to react to it. But they have significantly lowered the risk of significant and sever illness for those who are vaccinated.

what with her history and condition, mrsdm is 100% contraindicated to ever get near a covid infection.
her doc said ‘she must never get this’.
she’s got all the vax.
and we are careful. used to be 100% careful. now maybe 85%. we mask always, we wash, mostly, we distance as much as we can (airplanes, you know).

well she did get it, when we were in NJ about 6 weeks ago. symptoms lasted 2 days.
if she hadnt been tested and confirmed we would have written it off to a bad cold.

pulmonologist said with all the vaxes there’s almost no chance for any long term consequences.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:11:12am

re: #243 Joe Bacon

More proof that Right Wing Jesus makes you really, really stupid.

Kanye West is claiming Satan is using China to attack the United States (Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake)

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:16:02am

re: #241 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Customer purchases device with a lifetime warranty.

Device fails two years later.

“Obviously it’s useful lifetime is over.”

also

customer (ok, me) goes to purchase large, discretionary and expensive product.
salesman touts every good thing about it - how it’s made, how durable, why it’s better…
I bite.
he says, now lets talk about an extended warranty.
extended warranty? after everything you just said to sell me that this thing was perfect?

nope. no sale.
this dealer was 10 minutes from home. Billy Joel went there.

so my brother and i drove 40 minutes to another dealer.
very low key.
sold me the bike i wanted.
didnt ask about the warranty.
so we said ‘make it two’ and bought two bikes.

we drove 40 minutes each way, out of our way for the next 12 years.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:17:47am

It’s snowing so hard I can’t see across my tiny yard. I could get lost in the blizzard without even leaving home.

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:18:14am

re: #247 Dangerman

what with her history and condition, mrsdm is 100% contraindicated to ever get near a covid infection.
her doc said ‘she must never get this’.
she’s got all the vax.
and we are careful. used to be 100% careful. now maybe 85%. we mask always, we wash, mostly, we distance as much as we can (airplanes, you know).

well she did get it, when we were in NJ about 6 weeks ago. symptoms lasted 2 days.
if she hadnt been tested and confirmed we would have written it off to a bad cold.

pulmonologist said with all the vaxes there’s almost no chance for any long term consequences.

ps - as close as we physically usually are to each other, it’s amazing that I didn’t get it.

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:19:44am

re: #248 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Kanye West is claiming Satan is using China to attack the United States (Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake)

Headline: Satan not powerful enough; needs China to wreak any actual havoc

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:22:38am

re: #252 Dangerman

Headline: Satan not powerful enough; needs China to wreak any actual havoc

That came from this video interview of Kanye West on YouTube (December 11, 2022, 4:54).

The interview is unhinged enough, but the comments aren’t even attached to the door frame.

Sunday, December 11, 2022 - Ye (Kanye West) told X17 exclusively today — during a full face masked interview — that he is NOT bipolar and having an episode, but that he might be autistic. He goes on to explain that China is the real threat to the U.S. and that Satan is using the Chinese government to attack us. The designer extraordinaire met with some of his staff at the Cornerstone Christian Church, where he visited two weeks ago, to discuss the Donda Academy being housed at this facility, we’re told. You can see a few students leaving the building.

Ye aka Kanye West Reveals His Diagnosis, Says Satan Is Attacking U.S. Via China

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lawhawk  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:22:43am

re: #249 Dangerman

Similar story. Go to buy a car at nearby dealer. Did online start and agreed upon price. Go and look at paperwork in dealership and they tack on all kinds of BS charges, like for etching and a few other things. I refused to pay for them - said that those weren’t agreed on and aren’t necessary.

They refused to budge.

I left showroom without sale. I went to dealer my inlaws used in NY (I’m in NJ). I refuse to do any business with the dealer 5 minutes from house and go to a dealership 20 minutes away for all my servicing. That’s 15 years worth of servicing and excellent experience at this other dealership.

Kicker: the neighborhood dealer was hit by consumer affairs for major fine relating to those BS fees.

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lawhawk  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:23:09am

re: #248 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Puny god.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:24:38am

re: #248 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Kanye West is claiming Satan is using China to attack the United States (Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake)

We’re the kind of country that hands a microphone to the mentally ill rather than getting them some help.

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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:25:03am

re: #249 Dangerman

Bought my son a set of $70 earbuds, and paid the $13 for the two year warrantee at Best Buy. A little over a year later, he lost one of the buds. Walked in, and not only did they trade for a new set (losing one earbud was part of the coverage) but they gave me a refund for the difference in price between when I had bought them originally and the new set.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:26:16am

Personal news behind the tag.

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How are y’all doing?

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Joe Bacon  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:28:03am

re: #258 The Pie Overlord!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:28:22am

re: #256 Crush White Nationalism

We’re the kind of country that hands a microphone to the mentally ill rather than getting them some help.

And guns. We also hand them guns.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:30:04am

HBO Max wants to make sure that people ask themselves why they still have HBO Max subscriptions.

HBO Max is cleaning house again. After the Warner Bros. Discovery streamer removed over 60 titles from the platform without warning this August — many of which were originals developed for the service — a new batch of series are being prepped to be taken off in the next few days, sources have confirmed to IndieWire.

The most high-profile of these series is HBO’s “Westworld,” which was canceled this fall after falling ratings in Season 4. Other shows getting taken off include Victorian England sci-fi show “The Nevers” and rom-com anthology series “Love Life.” In a similar vein to the Lionsgate series “Minx,” the pulling of these shows effectively doubles as their cancellation announcement. According to sources, other less-high profile titles will be announced to leave the service in the next few days.

‘Westworld’ Isn’t Just Canceled, It’s Being Pulled from HBO Max — and There’s More (Indiewire via MSN)

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:30:16am

re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg

And guns. We also hand them guns.

Yee-Haw!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:31:02am

re: #258 The Pie Overlord!

Personal news behind the tag.

How are y’all doing?

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:31:13am

Looks like a worthy sequel:

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE - Official Trailer (HD)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:34:15am

re: #254 lawhawk

We negotiated buying our Smart over the telephone before ever arriving at the dealership, including accessories and price.

We didn’t have any problems with add-on mystic charges from the Mercedes-Benz dealership. The only problem we had was they were flummoxed about how to accept money orders drawn from our two banks since they weren’t set up for such a system.

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William Lewis  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:34:56am

re: #264 Dr Lizardo

Looks like a worthy sequel:

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Video

Yes. Yes it does. :D

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Jay C  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:37:03am

re: #256 Crush White Nationalism

We’re the kind of country that hands a microphone to the mentally ill rather than getting them some help.

More like “allows the wealthy mentally-ill to buy a microphone (or megaphone) if they don’t realize they need some help”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:37:05am

Comment at Reddit (referencing Brittney Spears):

Kanye would already be under conservatorship IF he was a woman.

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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:37:49am

re: #261 Crush White Nationalism

HBO Max wants to make sure that people ask themselves why they still have HBO Max subscriptions.

‘Westworld’ Isn’t Just Canceled, It’s Being Pulled from HBO Max — and There’s More (Indiewire via MSN)

They’ve canceled the best remaining show on Cartoon Network, Craig of the Creek, even shortening the final season a few episodes.

My son was telling me that one of the VPs of the channel has come out and said that the goal is to get the channel back to the edgier type programming like Adventure Time and Samurai Jack, but we’ll see. I hope he has that kind of influence, but I think Craig actually fit the kind of stories he claims they are looking for and yet it got canceled anyway.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:39:25am

Since China has a policy of state atheism, it would be illegal to attack the USA with Satan. /s

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:40:05am

re: #266 William Lewis

The first film was great. One of the best Spider-Man films ever.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:40:05am

re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

MERS doesn’t spread as easily as COVID and so is unlikely to pose the same threat. It apparently requires prolonged contact with an infected individual.

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A Cranky One  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:43:24am

Mrs Cranky has had some sort of crud for over 10 days; tested negative twice for Covid. She is still coughing and terribly congested.

Now I fear I’ve caught the bug. Feeling lousy.

I always mask and have taken precautions. Oh well.

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:44:05am

re: #257 Belafon

Bought my son a set of $70 earbuds, and paid the $13 for the two year warrantee at Best Buy. A little over a year later, he lost one of the buds. Walked in, and not only did they trade for a new set (losing one earbud was part of the coverage) but they gave me a refund for the difference in price between when I had bought them originally and the new set.

good customer service stories are good.
the bad ones are so bad.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:44:16am

Stuart Margolin - perhaps best-known as Angel from The Rockford Files - has died at the age of 82.

tvline.com

RIP.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:44:22am

re: #272 Hecuba’s daughter

MERS doesn’t spread as easily as COVID and so is unlikely to pose the same threat. It apparently requires prolonged contact with an infected individual.

Let’s hope it stays that way. Covid didn’t originally spread nearly as well as the current variants do.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:46:03am

re: #272 Hecuba’s daughter

MERS doesn’t spread as easily as COVID and so is unlikely to pose the same threat. It apparently requires prolonged contact with an infected individual.

Would a 10-hour overseas flight count as “prolonged contact”?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:47:06am

re: #277 Eclectic Cyborg

Would a 10-hour overseas flight count as “prolonged contact”?

Or staying indoors with your family or co-workers?

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:49:37am

re: #275 Dr Lizardo

Stuart Margolin - perhaps best-known as Angel from The Rockford Files - has died at the age of 82.

tvline.com

RIP.

also Kelly’s Heroes

and a regular on Love, American Style

damn

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:50:37am

re: #273 A Cranky One

Mrs Cranky has had some sort of crud for over 10 days; tested negative twice for Covid. She is still coughing and terribly congested.

Now I fear I’ve caught the bug. Feeling lousy.

I always mask and have taken precautions. Oh well.

Yes, that’s what happens to me when I get upper respiratory infections due to cold or flu. I hate it. Hope you both feel better soon.

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William Lewis  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:50:39am

re: #271 Dr Lizardo

The first film was great. One of the best Spider-Man films ever.

_The_ best to my mind, though the most recent ones with Tom Holland come close.

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austin_blue  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:52:23am

re: #258 The Pie Overlord!

Personal news behind the tag.

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How are y’all doing?

Well, I, for one, am worried about YOU! Get tested and be well, please.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:52:27am

re: #273 A Cranky One

Mrs Cranky has had some sort of crud for over 10 days; tested negative twice for Covid. She is still coughing and terribly congested.

Now I fear I’ve caught the bug. Feeling lousy.

I always mask and have taken precautions. Oh well.

I feel your pain. Can you feel my pain?

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William Lewis  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:52:55am

re: #275 Dr Lizardo

Stuart Margolin - perhaps best-known as Angel from The Rockford Files - has died at the age of 82.

tvline.com

RIP.

Now that was possibly the best of all of the PI shows so popular then. I always loved it - well written, incredible acting and a certain verisimilitude that you almost never see on the TV.

RIP Mr Margolin. Thanks for all you gave us.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:53:57am

re: #234 Belafon

They can’t protect you from inhaling the virus. As I have said, they’re not little sharks with lasers floating around your head. They have trained your body to respond to the virus as quickly as it can, but it’s still up to the human body to react to it. But they have significantly lowered the risk of significant and sever illness for those who are vaccinated.

Yes — not as severe illness, mostly mild, but still illness for several days and the ability to transmit it to others.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:55:27am

I’m guessing the Biden Administration reckons that Iran has indeed started preparing their missiles for shipment to Russia.

The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine that could be announced as soon as this week, according to two US officials and a senior administration official.

The Pentagon’s plan still needs to be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin before it is sent to President Joe Biden for his signature. The three officials told CNN that approval is expected.

Ukraine has been calling for the US to send the advanced long-range air defense system that is highly effective at intercepting ballistic and cruise missiles as it comes under a barrage of Russian missile and drone attacks that have destroyed key infrastructure across the country. It would be the most effective long-range defensive weapons system sent to the country and officials say it will help secure airspace for NATO nations in eastern Europe.

edition.cnn.com

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A Cranky One  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:55:48am

re: #283 The Pie Overlord!

Absolutely.

I also empathize with the knee issue. I’ve developed severe osteoarthritis in both shoulders. It’s so annoying not being able to do things that a year ago were no problem.
(I am scheduled for shoulder replacement surgery next month to deal with the worse shoulder).

I don’t mind getting older, but my body is getting rather pissy about it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:56:27am

Revision to the blizzard warning (again). Increased wind speed, snow accumulation, and expanded area.

…BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MST WEDNESDAY…

* WHAT…Blizzard conditions. Additional snow accumulations of 10
to 20 inches. with locally higher amounts possible. Winds
gusting as high as 60 mph.

* WHERE…Portions of panhandle Nebraska and east central and
southeast Wyoming.

* WHEN…Until 11 PM MST Wednesday.

* IMPACTS…Travel could be very difficult to impossible.
Widespread blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility.
The hazardous conditions could impact the morning or evening
commute. The cold wind chills as low as 20 below zero could
cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:56:28am

re: #234 Belafon

They can’t protect you from inhaling the virus. As I have said, they’re not little sharks with lasers floating around your head. They have trained your body to respond to the virus as quickly as it can, but it’s still up to the human body to react to it. But they have significantly lowered the risk of significant and sever illness for those who are vaccinated.

I’d like to get to the bottom of why we don’t have sharks with lasers floating around our heads to zap the virus, and have to settle for the products of science rather than magic. I assume this is Joe Biden’s fault.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:56:51am

COVID update. Wife and I were exposed on Saturday. She tested negative last night (rapid, not PCR). She has mild symptoms but could also be cold or flu related. I feel fine at the moment. I will test if I start developing symptoms.

I am double boosted, she is only single boosted.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:57:48am

re: #284 William Lewis

Now that was possibly the best of all of the PI shows so popular then. I always loved it - well written, incredible acting and a certain verisimilitude that you almost never see on the TV.

RIP Mr Margolin. Thanks for all you gave us.

I’ve turned quite a few of my students on to The Rockford Files - Czechs love the detective/crime drama/mystery genre.

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mmmirele  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:57:57am

The SEC’s complaint against Sam Bankman-Fried:

Also, Binance, the largest crypto exchange, has suspended withdrawals. While I was on a break, I tuned in briefly to hear the head of CZ talk about this that and the other, but he was 118 minutes in and I didn’t understand heads nor tails of it all.

I’d say the crypto world is collapsing in earnest now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:58:05am

I can barely see the church across the street. That’s a lot of snow in the air.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 13, 2022 • 9:59:51am

re: #292 mmmirele

Also, Binance, the largest crypto exchange, has suspended withdrawals. While I was on a break, I tuned in briefly to hear the head of CZ talk about this that and the other, but he was 118 minutes in and I didn’t understand heads nor tails of it all.

I’d say the crypto world is collapsing in earnest now.

I originally said Binance here. A cryptocurrency mining organization called Argo Blockchain is in hot shit because they accidentally leaked draft bankruptcy documents online, and while they hurried to assure everybody that they weren’t bankrupt YET, London and New York both suspended trading of Argo stock.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:01:14am

re: #294 Dopamine Fish

Binance is in hot shit because they accidentally leaked draft bankruptcy documents online, and while they hurried to assure everybody that they weren’t bankrupt YET, London and New York both suspended trading of Binance stock.

LOL what a clusterfuck.

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:01:33am

re: #295 Dr Lizardo

LOL what a clusterfuck.

Editing for wrong information. Binance isn’t the ones with the bankruptcy docs.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:02:36am

So if Binance goes poof, does that pretty much ruin all of crypto?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:02:56am

Blizzard warning extended into Thursday in the next county to my east (about ten miles away).

…The Flood Advisory continues for the following rivers in
Nebraska…

North Platte River at Lewellen affecting Garden and Keith
Counties.

.An ice jam will cause water to infiltrate the lowlands along the
river.

For the North Platte River…including Lewellen…elevated river
levels are forecast.

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:03:41am

re: #292 mmmirele

I’d say the crypto world is collapsing in earnest now.

It was inevitable. I’m just glad that I no longer need to make underground purchases, so am not impacted other than by the improved availability and pricing of video cards.

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:06:37am

re: #291 Dr Lizardo

I’ve turned quite a few of my students on to The Rockford Files - Czechs love the detective/crime drama/mystery genre.

My wife and I love The Rockford Files. The phone messages from Rockford’s sketchy friends are hilarious.

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William Lewis  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:08:20am

re: #291 Dr Lizardo

I’ve turned quite a few of my students on to The Rockford Files - Czechs love the detective/crime drama/mystery genre.

The only one that came close was the original Magnum P.I. and that, while good, was still more of a fantasy in many ways of what a PI’s life was like. Rockford, living in his trailer and scrabbling for jobs and held back by his convict status, just felt believable in a different way.

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Semper Fi  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:08:29am

re: #258 The Pie Overlord!

Personal news behind the tag.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:12:53am

re: #302 Semper Fi

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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:13:11am

re: #300 The GOP is a racist terrorist organization

My wife and I love The Rockford Files. The phone messages from Rockford’s sketchy friends are hilarious.

There’s an anime called Big O, and the teaser for the next episode was the main character receiving a phone call.

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lizardofid  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:15:08am

re: #294 Dopamine Fish

I originally said Binance here. A cryptocurrency mining organization called Argo Blockchain is in hot shit because they accidentally leaked draft bankruptcy documents online, and while they hurried to assure everybody that they weren’t bankrupt YET, London and New York both suspended trading of Argo stock.

Short seller in their midst?

//

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A Cranky One  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:15:08am

snopes.com

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:17:33am

re: #288 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Revision to the blizzard warning (again). Increased wind speed, snow accumulation, and expanded area.

Quick scanning BLIZZARD looks like buzzard

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:18:29am

Current conditions (taken a couple minutes ago)

December 13, 2022
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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:19:12am

re: #290 Eclectic Cyborg

COVID update. Wife and I were exposed on Saturday. She tested negative last night (rapid, not PCR). She has mild symptoms but could also be cold or flu related. I feel fine at the moment. I will test if I start developing symptoms.

I am double boosted, she is only single boosted.

Get thee to a boostery

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Jay C  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:19:37am

re: #292 mmmirele

The SEC’s complaint against Sam Bankman-Fried:

[Embedded content]

Also, Binance, the largest crypto exchange, has suspended withdrawals. While I was on a break, I tuned in briefly to hear the head of CZ talk about this that and the other, but he was 118 minutes in and I didn’t understand heads nor tails of it all.

[Embedded content]

I’d say the crypto world is collapsing in earnest now.

FYI: the SEC complaint document doesn’t seem to have loaded.

And seeing how Sam Bankman-Fried has got not only the SEC, but the DoJ on his ass for various frauds, I hope he’s got a comfy pad to wait out his extradition: he seems to be angling to set a new record for “descent from billionaire to indigent defendant” - what? six weeks??

And yeah, look like Planet Crypton is getting ready to implode: not a surprise when one considers that - for all the digital woo-woo and high-tech hype, crypto is basically vapor-ware “money”- and its markets have really nothing much behind them other than the willingness of financial players to assign *real-money* value to the shit: to the tune of, what? $2 trillion or so all told?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:21:24am

re: #309 Dangerman

Get thee to a boostery

Don’t worry, she’s planning to as soon as she can.

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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:21:38am
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Belafon  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:21:50am

re: #310 Jay C

FYI: the SEC complaint document doesn’t seem to have loaded.

And seeing how Sam Bankman-Fried has got not only the SEC, but the DoJ on his ass for various frauds, I hope he’s got a comfy pad to wait out his extradition: he seems to be angling to set a new record for “descent from billionaire to indigent defendant” - what? six weeks??

And yeah, look like Planet Crypton is getting ready to implode: not a surprise when one considers that - for all the digital woo-woo and high-tech hype, crypto is basically vapor-ware “money”- and its markets have really nothing much behind them other than the willingness of financial players to assign *real-money* value to the shit: to the tune of, what? $2 trillion or so all told?

We attach value to paper. The value their money offered was that it wouldn’t require oversight by a government. The longer it’s gone on, though, the more everyone realizes that currencies require oversight.

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lizardofid  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:22:39am

re: #301 William Lewis

The only one that came close was the original Magnum P.I. and that, while good, was still more of a fantasy in many ways of what a PI’s life was like. Rockford, living in his trailer and scrabbling for jobs and held back by his convict status, just felt believable in a different way.

In Malibu, Paradise Cove, right? ; )

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:24:20am

re: #312 The GOP is a racist terrorist organization

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:25:42am

re: #294 Dopamine Fish

I originally said Binance here. A cryptocurrency mining organization called Argo Blockchain is in hot shit because they accidentally leaked draft bankruptcy documents online, and while they hurried to assure everybody that they weren’t bankrupt YET, London and New York both suspended trading of Argo stock.

So many things wrong with those 6 words in one sentence

The people you trusted with all your money

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:27:08am

re: #313 Belafon

We attach value to paper. The value their money offered was that it wouldn’t require oversight by a government. The longer it’s gone on, though, the more everyone realizes that currencies require oversight.

That and there’s a difference between real currency issued by a government and vapourware issued by a Libertarian outfit.

The first is backed by that government, accepted in other nations as the “coin of that realm,” and is physical in that you can immediately exchange it for goods or services anywhere in that nation.

The second is backed by “trust me, bro,” accepted by no one, cannot be exchanged for any goods or services in that nation without first converting it to real currency.

The great lie of cryptocurrency is that it does not rely on governments and their so-called fiat currency.

All currency is fiat currency: It has value because people say it does.

At least gold and silver are not entirely fiat, in that they are used in industry and jewellery.

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William Lewis  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:27:16am

re: #314 lizardofid

In Malibu, Paradise Cove, right? ; )

To a boy in Wisconsin, it was all like living in paradise. OTOH, couldn’t be too fancy if they’d let him have that trailer there ;)

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Dangerman  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:27:21am

re: #301 William Lewis

The only one that came close was the original Magnum P.I. and that, while good, was still more of a fantasy in many ways of what a PI’s life was like. Rockford, living in his trailer and scrabbling for jobs and held back by his convict status, just felt believable in a different way.

And getting stiffed…a lot

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:28:20am

re: #310 Jay C

FYI: the SEC complaint document doesn’t seem to have loaded.

And seeing how Sam Bankman-Fried has got not only the SEC, but the DoJ on his ass for various frauds, I hope he’s got a comfy pad to wait out his extradition: he seems to be angling to set a new record for “descent from billionaire to indigent defendant” - what? six weeks??

And yeah, look like Planet Crypton is getting ready to implode: not a surprise when one considers that - for all the digital woo-woo and high-tech hype, crypto is basically vapor-ware “money”- and its markets have really nothing much behind them other than the willingness of financial players to assign *real-money* value to the shit: to the tune of, what? $2 trillion or so all told?

At least tulips had real value.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:30:43am

re: #320 Hecuba’s daughter

At least tulips had real value.

Put those tulip bulbs on the blockchain!

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Crush White Nationalism  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:30:59am

re: #316 Dangerman

So many things wrong with those 6 words in one sentence

The people you trusted with all your money

If anyone trusts their money with anyone with “blockchain” in their name, that’s on them. I like to see the word “bank” or words “credit union” or “FDIC insured.”

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William Lewis  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:32:38am

re: #322 Crush White Nationalism

If anyone trusts their money with anyone with “blockchain” in their name, that’s on them. I like to see the word “bank” or words “credit union” or “FDIC insured.”

NCUA too.

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lizardofid  Dec 13, 2022 • 10:35:44am

re: #322 Crush White Nationalism

If anyone trusts their money with anyone with “blockchain” in their name, that’s on them. I like to see the word “bank” or words “credit union” or “FDIC insured.”

Use Tulip Blockchain “FTD Insured”!


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