Link to song: https://dywanethomasjr.bandcamp.com/track/quilted-feat-george-clinton
Song written and produced by MonoNeon, Davy Nathan and Wax
Video filmed and directed by Andrew Kurchinski
Video clips of women quilting from Kentucky Heritage: Traditional Quilting in Kentucky, 1971 (Part of WKU Kentucky Heritage Project collection housed at WKU Archives): YouTube
Say what you will about McCarthy as a leader, he’s consistent in his ability to lose votes.
re: #1 Dangerman
Let’s hope he loses his position as “leader.”
I am coming to the belief that the only way to get gun control enacted in these United States would be a live broadcast takeover of Fox News programming with the indiscriminate killing of Faux News staff and on-air personalities, complete with GOP guests being brought down by automatic weapons.
Do I want that to happen? No, definitively NO.
No one should have to die and be a martyr over this issue.
I do wonder if that is what it will take to reach those that continue to leverage this for political advantage. Naturally, in order for the impression to stick, the perpetrators would have to be Q-Anon/MAGA advocates with complaints that Faux News is oppressing them somehow.
I’ve established a temporary solution to allow me some access to LGF while things sort themselves out downstream. To celebrate, I have a Wordle.
Wordle 588 3/6
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re: #3 piratedan
There is no path to any real gun control in the US.
re: #4 Dopamine Fish
Weird that it’s taking so long for the DNS changes to reach you.
I loves me some Mononeon. Because he’s a sharp dresser.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Weird that it’s taking so long for the DNS changes to reach you.
It’s not DNS; it’s been resolving the correct IP address. When I did a traceroute, it kept dying at a specific server just upstream of the LGF server. I don’t know if I’m getting filtered or something on the hosting end.
Nah, because it wasn’t an “attack” and the video only raises more questions. https://t.co/3qWm2pVaXe
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) January 28, 2023
Have you tried a full DNS Flush with your ISP?
If Lizard Tech Support can’t fix this nobody can.
re: #8 Dopamine Fish
It’s still happening, by the way. If I disconnect my VPN, LGF goes away. If I reconnect it, it works. It seems to be a very clear case of being IP filtered/banned somewhere.
re: #8 Dopamine Fish
It’s not DNS; it’s been resolving the correct IP address. When I did a traceroute, it kept dying at a specific server just upstream of the LGF server. I don’t know if I’m getting filtered or something on the hosting end.
Wednesday morning, url isitdownrightnow.com said my computer and CloudFlare Chicago were fine and that the problem was with LGF. So maybe there’s some complication related to CloudFlare sites.
re: #11 Dopamine Fish
It’s still happening, by the way. If I disconnect my VPN, LGF goes away. If I reconnect it, it works. It seems to be a very clear case of being IP filtered/banned somewhere.
Why are you using a VPN? Are you in a hotel or public place/travel?
re: #4 Dopamine Fish
I’ve established a temporary solution to allow me some access to LGF while things sort themselves out downstream. To celebrate, I have a Wordle.
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Dopey! You remind me that I have one of those, not as nice of course..
Wordle 588 4/6*
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Oops, I backspaced on it.
re: #13 BigPapa
Why are you using a VPN? Are you in a hotel or public place/travel?
Ah, you’re behind. Since Wednesday night, I’ve been unable to connect to LGF. After extensive network diagnostics yesterday, and at the end of my list of options, I tried firing up the VPN. That enabled LGF to work, though I don’t like using it as a long—term solution if it can be avoided.
By the way, we’re not on Cloudflare any more. I set that up to try to fix the issues we were having, but it didn’t work. I switched back to the Hosting Matters nameservers.
re: #89 Targetpractice
Yeah, I always get a chuckle out of the “logic” that says that humans need “God” to know right from wrong. I tend to hear any such declarations as confessions, that the person arguing such has a lot of skeletons in their closet that are ready to come dancing out if the latch on the door ever breaks. Given all the cases we hear of annually of “men of the cloth” being caught engaged in everything from theft to infidelity to murder, there’s certainly plenty of arguments that being holy doesn’t bar you from being evil.
Quoting Tracey Harris: The difference between me and your god is if your god sees a little child being raped, he says I’ll punish you later. If I see a little child being raped, I’ll do what I can to help the child. That makes me more moral than your god.
This popped up in my feed. Part of this country is stupid beyond repair
REPORTER: “Do you think Democrats have spent too much money?”
OCASIO-CORTEZ: “The largest contributor to the debt ceiling…has been the Trump tax cuts.” pic.twitter.com/HBn3CgTAAV— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 27, 2023
If only there were a simple way to restrain a suspect resisting arrest…say, a knee to the neck, something like that https://t.co/a1LZGdJPlp
— Patrick Casey (@restoreorderusa) January 28, 2023
What a scumbag.
re: #15 Dopamine Fish
Ah, you’re behind. Since Wednesday night, I’ve been unable to connect to LGF. After extensive network diagnostics yesterday, and at the end of my list of options, I tried firing up the VPN. That enabled LGF to work, though I don’t like using it as a long—term solution if it can be avoided.
Sounds like a call to your ISP is in your future.
Yeah they don’t kill infidels anymore!
— Confidence Cult (@ConfidenceCult) January 27, 2023
Richard Dawkins pointed out once the difference between so-called “New Atheists” and old atheists is they don’t burn us at the stake any more.
re: #21 BigPapa
Sounds like a call to your ISP is in your future.
Our illustrious host said the same thing, though the problem appears to be downstream of the ISP. Maybe early tomorrow morning I’ll reboot the modem to get a new IP address and see if that resolves the issue.
We are so doomed. https://t.co/I8T6Rlzrds
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2023
re: #4 Dopamine Fish
I’ve established a temporary solution to allow me some access to LGF while things sort themselves out downstream. To celebrate, I have a Wordle.
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Have you tried 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 or other alternate DNS?
re: #23 Dopamine Fish
Our illustrious host said the same thing, though the problem appears to be downstream of the ISP. Maybe early tomorrow morning I’ll reboot the modem to get a new IP address and see if that resolves the issue.
The only thing downstream of your ISP is your router. It’s their modem and your router. Or it’s their modem and their router. Use The Force. Good luck.
And I have it on specious terms that our so-called ‘illustrious’ host has been, at times, lustrious.
(small gasp then silence from crowd)
Which makes him sorta more kool.
re: #25 William Lewis
Have you tried 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 or other alternate DNS?
I’ve been using Google DNS exclusively for over a year now. Again, it’s not the DNS. The lookup has been returning the correct IP address the whole time. My packets are literally getting lost in space just upstream of the host.
Sorry but this is amazing. Love to just casually drop, in tweet 41 of my 42 part thread, that everything you read might have been cherry-picked and not tell the whole picture bc ‘material may have been left out’. Extremely principled journalistic behavior. https://t.co/vHSdP9bpp8 pic.twitter.com/w5A90iYy9i
— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) January 28, 2023
re: #24 Charles Johnson
When they go Multicast we’re hosed. When they go Broadcast we’re Totally Fucked, Man. In milspec that’s called BerserkerCast.
Deep freeze underway.
forecast.weather.gov
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Deep freeze underway.
forecast.weather.gov
Yep. Already been dealing with the brutal Arctic air here. We got an inch or so of snow overnight Thursday, so I cleared that off Friday morning when the temperature was 30 °F (around -1 C); by last night, the temperature had fallen to 0 °F (-17.8 C). On Monday, the high is not supposed to even break above 0 °F.
The correct phrase would be “I’ve never spoken to an atheist.”
That’s interesting, I’ve never spoke with an atheist who doesn’t blame God for all the evil in the world, even though they don’t believe in Him.
— JayneKimlee (@JayneKimlee) January 27, 2023
They blame religious people acting in the name of God for “some” of the “evil” (a religious word) in the world.
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It appears that Philly will get it after a bit of snow on Wednesday.
forecast.weather.gov
re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
At least not until after 2024.
“gain of function” is the new “marxism”.
Terms they don’t understand, but throw around to scare people. The terms get passed around through yokel folklore, with head-nods and “yups”, like they have a clue.— Dave Keon’s Cousin (@DaveKeonsCousin) January 28, 2023
re: #31 Dopamine Fish
I’m absolutely livid because it’s in the high 60s, low 70s here. I hate summer with the fury of a thousand exploding suns, and I already have to suffer through 90+ temps from May through September. I have nothing but contempt for my friends and neighbors who are all, “law tee daw, beautiful weather innit, blah blah”. This time of year I want to be freezing my ass off and wrapping myself in numerous protective layers, but NO. I’m wearing fucking SHORTS. I hate this beyond description.
re: #4 Dopamine Fish
I’ve established a temporary solution to allow me some access to LGF while things sort themselves out downstream. To celebrate, I have a Wordle.
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MISSED YOU!
Remember, Thursday is Voo Doo Rat Day.
And if you lived in Punxsutawney, you’d look for any reason to get hammered.
re: #23 Dopamine Fish
Our illustrious host said the same thing, though the problem appears to be downstream of the ISP. Maybe early tomorrow morning I’ll reboot the modem to get a new IP address and see if that resolves the issue.
Teukka seems to be having a similar problem.
re: #23 Dopamine Fish
What’s your normal non-VPN IP address? I can check and see if it somehow got blocked while our host was trying to figure out the problem.
re: #41 Charles Johnson
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This is an amendment that I will use to make a point about the underlying bill, LB371, which bans all-ages drag shows. It won’t pass, I would withdraw it if it had the votes to pass. It’s a device to make a point. We need not clench nor worry. https://t.co/aUgwBtN1QG
— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) January 28, 2023
Happy third anniversary to all who celebrate! https://t.co/WOOfcpxfRJ
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) January 27, 2023
I wouldn’t pass a law to ban it. Thats the difference. https://t.co/IqRyzgMNhR
— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) January 26, 2023
re: #42 Dopamine Fish
Hey now. Guess whose IP I just unblocked?
The host must have blocked it in our DirectAdmin control panel.
re: #46 Charles Johnson
Hey now. Guess whose IP I just unblocked?
The host must have blocked it in our DirectAdmin control panel.
I WAS FRAMED!!!
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
LOL
My brother in Christ, I am a lawmaker. If I wanted to do everything in my power to make something illegal, I would simply introduce a bill and give it a try. https://t.co/8JIm4mV7bp
— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) January 26, 2023
But seriously. If there was an actual issue with something coming from my IP, let me know so I can try to track it down.
re: #50 Dopamine Fish
No, it was just a mistake - they were apparently blocking IPs because the problem originally seemed to be a DDOS.
I also found Teukka’s IP in there and unblocked him too.
Is there anyone else who’s having trouble getting in?
re: #51 Charles Johnson
No, it was just a mistake - they were apparently blocking IPs because the problem originally seemed to be a DDOS.
I’m just glad I’m not completely crazy.
re: #39 nines09
Remember, Thursday is Voo Doo Rat Day.
And if you lived in Punxsutawney, you’d look for any reason to get hammered.
Hey now, that’s my hometown and Phil libel.
You’re right about the drinking, but Phil deserves a little respect.
re: #39 nines09
Please cut Mr. P a break! He’s been stuck in his bungalow for months and he’s forced to watch Fox.
re: #58 Charles Johnson
Wow. This is kind of amazing.
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Some programmers have way too much time on their hands. Dear God, I can’t even imagine what that project must look like.
re: #162 Joe Bacon
I don’t want to see anyone killed by gun violence, but perhaps what it will take is a continued onslaught against the wealthiest cities in the country (like Beverly Hills).
When rich people start dying, they will demand from the politicians they own that something be done.
Conservatives think they are smart with the snappy replies.
Hello Senator, what form should I fill out to teach kids about gun safety in the public school library?
— Whitney Weeks (@TheWeeksy) January 27, 2023
a) Find your public school
b) Ask them
New findings: Measles virus ‘cooperates’ w/ itself to cause fatal encephalitis that occurs years after infection. Scientists in Japan have uncovered how measles virus causes subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a rare but lethal disorder. #VaccinesWork https://t.co/aLHoLTxf6i pic.twitter.com/GlsPd7209w
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) January 27, 2023
Great thing about Mastodon’s embeds is that they don’t come with a bunch of ad trackers like Twitter’s do. I’m gonna have to add more support for the Mastodon API.
re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg
Why the fuck are conservatives so obsessed with sex?
They are perverts. Any time one weighs in with a perverted opinion, they should immediately be called out as perverts.
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They are perverts. Any time one weighs in with a perverted opinion, they should immediately be called out as perverts.
They have a guilt complex. They know they’re not supposed to enjoy the perverted things they do behind closed doors, but they do, and they feel guilty about it, so they want to ban it all so that they have an excuse to feel better about themselves.
re: #156 jeffreyw
Tell me you’re not an oldster without giving your age.
Local telephone calls from a public phone used to cost 10¢.
Now they cost 50¢.
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Local telephone calls from a public phone used to cost 10¢.
Now they cost 50¢.
When you can find one.
re: #68 Dopamine Fish
They have a guilt complex. They know they’re not supposed to enjoy the perverted things they do behind closed doors, but they do, and they feel guilty about it, so they want to ban it all so that they have an excuse to feel better about themselves.
Nah. They’re perverts. Make them deny it.
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Local telephone calls from a public phone used to cost 10¢.
What’s a “public phone”?
re: #215 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Welcome back. Missed you!
I’ve been working on setting up my new computer.
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….
bzzzt-bzzzt-bzzzt-bzzzt-bzzzt-bzzzt-bzzzt-bzzzt…
doo-doo-deeet!
If you’d like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator.
doo-doo-deet!
EDIT: oooo!
re: #76 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….
bzzzt-bzzzt-bzzzt-bzzzt-bzzzt-bzzzt-bzzzt-bzzzt…
doo-doo-deeet!
If you’d like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator.
doo-doo-deet!
I visited my brother at CalTech, where they had payphones in the hall of the dorm. I watched students hack the phones by whistling the right note for each number.
re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Quoting Tracey Harris: The difference between me and your god is if your god sees a little child being raped, he says I’ll punish you later. If I see a little child being raped, I’ll do what I can to help the child. That makes me more moral than your god.
presumably if you see a child being raped and do what you can to help the child, it just may be because god thought you would be a useful person to handle that, considering he doesn’t really have a physical presence of his own to come down and hunt criminals with, while driving around in the Executioner’s war wagon.
Just curious: To get “verified,” did you have to show proof that you are actually THE Princess Popsicle, or are you just a crazy wingnut who pays $8 a month to feel important and credible?
— David Zuckerman (@David_Zuckerman) January 28, 2023
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
6 assholes on the corrupted court stand in the way of any gun laws and they will not budge.
re: #44 ckkatz
large boulder the size of a small boulder, eh? logic circuits failing….abort, abort.
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Local telephone calls from a public phone used to cost 10¢.
Now they cost 50¢.
Our phone number was RE2-1922.
Gasoline was $0.17/gallon.
We listened to music on AM radio
re: #77 wrenchwench
I was never a phone phreaker but it was a REVELATION to me when I discovered that you could dial numbers by pressing the hang-up button just right. Like, instead of dialing “5” on the rotary dial you could just press the hang-up switch 5 times in rhythmic succession and get the same result. It was totally useless but it definitely made me curious about how the phone system actually worked.
My payphone story has already been told here, but I’m going to do it again, because you can’t stop me.
In my college dorm, the pay phones were in the stairwell, 2 to each of the 3 floors. (Only ‘the rich kid’ had a phone in his room.) Calls would come in, some nice person would answer and find out who they were looking for. It was me this one time.
Caller: I’m calling for David
Me: We have six Davids on this floor.
Caller: David White
Me: OK, now we’re down to two. Do you want Black David White or White David White?
Caller: Heh. Black David White.
I mentioned my travails re work on Wednesday night.
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re: #85 mmmirele
I mentioned my travails re work on Wednesday night.
Wish me luck.
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heh
Cops demand Uber driver turn off his camera, citing new law, threaten him with jail, say they will search his car with sniffer dogs. Driver refuses, because it turns out the driver is also an attorney and he knows no such law exists. https://t.co/i9mze0s98E
— Cop Crisis (@copcrisis) January 27, 2023
re: #85 mmmirele
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re: #48 BigPapa
That’s what you would say if you were guilty.
There’s something fishy about that guy.
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re: #83 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I was never a phone phreaker but it was a REVELATION to me when I discovered that you could dial numbers by pressing the hang-up button just right. Like, instead of dialing “5” on the rotary dial you could just press the hang-up switch 5 times in rhythmic succession and get the same result. It was totally useless but it definitely made me curious about how the phone system actually worked.
I didn’t have the words for it then, but I think the feeling was, ‘Oh my. The infrastructure is vulnerable.’
re: #83 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I was never a phone phreaker but it was a REVELATION to me when I discovered that you could dial numbers by pressing the hang-up button just right. Like, instead of dialing “5” on the rotary dial you could just press the hang-up switch 5 times in rhythmic succession and get the same result. It was totally useless but it definitely made me curious about how the phone system actually worked.
My father taught me to do that.
It wasn’t always useless. There were dial locks on some phones, and you could still call by tapping in the number.
We often forget Trump is an absolute fucking moron https://t.co/bltUMkj6UU
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 28, 2023
re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth
Maybe content like this is why DirectTV didn’t renew?
— Peter Brown (@SydneyEditor) January 28, 2023
re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #91 Crush White Nationalism
My father taught me to do that.
It wasn’t always useless. There were dial locks on some phones, and you could still call by tapping in the number.
The way it worked was that rotary phones would break the dial tone X number of times as the dial spun, and the telephone exchange would pick up on those “pulses” and translate that into the number being dialed. The rotary-to-touchtone converters would do this conversion and then translate the number into the corresponding tone to send over the line.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
Is there anyone else who’s having trouble getting in?
I have noticed that even if I come back to the same computer, it does want me to sign in again. Is that just new security, or does a switch need to be flipped somewhere?
re: #96 steve_davis
That can happen if you sign in on more than one device, under some circumstances.
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
a soft drink out of the machine cost 25 cents.
re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
That article was several years old. There was an update to that story in 2020:
Cop who told driver not to record police demoted (WCBI-TV)
WILMINGTON, N.C. — When police stopped an Uber driver to detain his passenger last month, he immediately turned on his cellphone and started recording.
The officers demanded he turn off his phone, citing a reportedly non-existent state law, but what they didn’t know was that Jesse Bright was a defense attorney - moonlighting as a driver to make some extra cash in an effort to pay off his student loans. Now, one of the officers involved has been demoted.
Local news outlets report Wilmington police Sgt. Kenneth Becker was demoted and hit with a 5 percent pay cut. Becker has been with the department 17 years.
re: #95 Dopamine Fish
The way it worked was that rotary phones would break the dial tone X number of times as the dial spun, and the telephone exchange would pick up on those “pulses” and translate that into the number being dialed. The rotary-to-touchtone converters would do this conversion and then translate the number into the corresponding tone to send over the line.
You can do it with a touch-tone telephone as well.
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Payphone.
I was being facetious. But there aren’t any around here. Haven’t been for over 10 years.
An arctic cold front is on its way through our area today. A timeline is attached. Northern areas (e.g. Lusk, Chadron) can expect steadily dropping temperatures through the day.
The I-80 corridor can expect rapidly dropping temperatures this afternoon. #wywx #newx pic.twitter.com/RyIFZNSP1G— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) January 28, 2023
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Local telephone calls from a public phone used to cost 10¢.
Now they cost 50¢.
We’d spin a penny clockwise in the payphone nickel slot with your right thumb, and as it dropped, press the the coin release with your right palm.
Do that twice, and make a phone call for $.02.
re: #53 Charles Johnson
Is there anyone else who’s having trouble getting in?
‘are you asleep’ and other questions you can’t answer in the affirmative
;-)
re: #83 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Like, instead of dialing “5” on the rotary dial you could just press the hang-up switch 5 times in rhythmic succession and get the same result. It was totally useless but it definitely made me curious about how the phone system actually worked.
It was a way of dialing if the dial was locked.
You could also play the tone(s) a pay phone used to indicate a coin had been inserted and then play it back into the mouth piece to spoof the system.
I used to have one of these: Blue box - Wikipedia
He’s correct.
Dave Ramsey: Raising Rent and Displacing a Family Is Not ‘an Un-Christian Act’ (Christian Headlines, January 10, 2023)
Financial expert Dave Ramsey says Christians who own property as landlords should not feel guilty about raising rental prices - provided they aren’t overcharging, and they work with tenants in difficult situations.
“This idea that you have to equate Christian and kindness with not having good marketplace experience is not true,” Ramsey said last week while answering a question on his program, The Ramsey Show.
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re: #107 Charles Johnson
I used to have one of these: Blue box - Wikipedia
Hawaiian phone calls must have been steep. Long distance used to be a no-go proposition. Now it’s only phone calls from jail that are out of reach expensive.
re: #107 Charles Johnson
I used to have one of these: Blue box - Wikipedia
So you’re the person who got me charged a four-hour long-distance call from Virginia Beach to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. /s
re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He’s correct.
Dave Ramsey: Raising Rent and Displacing a Family Is Not ‘an Un-Christian Act’ (Christian Headlines, January 10, 2023)
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His companies fire [female] employees who engage in premarital sex.
Show your hands, obey commands… you survive a police encounter every time.
— Grant Stinchfield (@stinchfield1776) January 28, 2023
If you don’t obey the orders of a police officer and resist arrest, I have no pity for you. Innocent or not. #police #NYPD #scorpinunit #NICHOLAS #backtheblue #news #
— ▪️ J.P ▪️ (@NYCryptoKing) January 28, 2023
Keep in mind… If you don’t run from Police Officers, don’t resist, and just obey their commands, you will survive without a scratch.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) January 28, 2023
People need to stop resisting arrest.
— Anthony Brian Logan (ABL) 🇺🇸 (@ANTHONYBLOGAN) January 28, 2023
For the life of me, I will never understand what is so difficult about COMPLYING w/ police orders.
1) He was high on drugs.
2) He had just done a hit & run.
3) He tried to get into someone else’s vehicle.
4) He RAN from police.
5) He resisted arrest.
6) Officers were black.— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) January 27, 2023
The Right Wing Twitterverse blaming Tyre Nichols for his own murder.
re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth
We are going to get used to hear increasing calls from Conservatives that “Trump is too old” now to run, first as an out from supporting him now in favor of the true dedicated Nazi DeSantis, and second as a dig against Biden.
re: #97 Charles Johnson
I do wish it could track the last few devices. Every day I switch between phone, work PC, home PC. Usually just keep one logged in.
re: #109 wrenchwench
Circa 1989, I got in parental hot water by dialing long-distance BBS’s to the tune of $400 one month.
Fun fact: in those days, it was common for the BBS sysop to “voice-verify” you, which meant they called you on the phone and that somehow satisfied their questions. One of the BBSs I called when I was calling every possible BBS was “Brazos de Dios”, which just so happened to be the BBS of the Branch Davidians in Waco, TX, where I lived at the time. I got “voice-verified” by a guy whose name I CANNOT REMEMBER TO SAVE MY LIFE, but who was present at the ATF raid and subsequent shit-show. Wayne-something, or something-Wayne. Maybe. I don’t remember.
Should atheists be allowed to run for office?
— ꧁Rhea꧂ (@TheTweetOfRhea) January 27, 2023
re: #117 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
You ever call the Haven BBS in Groton Ct?
I am not enjoying the weekly parade of people whose music has been a part of my life for decades passing away…but of course, we are just getting started. :(
Tom Verlaine, Influential Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 73 https://t.co/NfxlCUS5VQ #MarqueeMoon
— Lizz “Insufferable Wench” Winstead (@lizzwinstead) January 28, 2023
re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
Cops demand Uber driver turn off his camera, citing new law, threaten him with jail, say they will search his car with sniffer dogs. Driver refuses, because it turns out the driver is also an attorney and he knows no such law exists. https://t.co/i9mze0s98E
— Cop Crisis (@copcrisis) January 27, 2023
1. cops can lie to you
2. cops are not required to be truthful when ‘advising’ you what laws are and your rights
3. miranda excepted (sometimes)
rule 1: say nothing, admit to nothing, agree to nothing*.
rule 2: ask am i under arrest?
if yes, shut up and ask for a lawyer now. don’t wait.
if not, ask if you can leave.
if they say no, then act as if you are under arrest.
* know your rights in the state you’re driving in - like if you have to submit to a breathalyzer
lolwut? pic.twitter.com/K67uNTSCFI
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 28, 2023
re: #120 bratwurst
I am not enjoying the weekly parade of people whose music has been a part of my life for decades passing away…but of course, we are just getting started. :(
Oh, damn. The New York punk/wave scene was so important to me growing up..
re: #121 Dangerman
1. cops can lie to you
2. cops are not required to be truthful when ‘advising’ you what laws are and your rights
3. miranda excepted (sometimes)rule 1: say nothing, admit to nothing, agree to nothing*.
rule 2: ask am i under arrest?
if yes, shut up and ask for a lawyer now. don’t wait.
if not, ask if you can leave.
if they say no, then act as if you are under arrest.* know your rights in the state you’re driving in - like if you have to submit to a breathalyzer
In Wisconsin you can request a blood test in place of a breathalyzer.
re: #82 sizzzzlerz
Our phone number was RE2-1922.
Gasoline was $0.17/gallon.
We listened to music on AM radio
How well I remember…
re: #98 steve_davis
a soft drink out of the machine cost 25 cents.
‘machines’ that were actual soda dispensers, not can/ bottle dispensers
the cup dropped and then the soda was poured in
often the cup didn’t always drop into place
re: #119 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Not sure. The ones I frequented most were some local Waco TX boards, “The Hell Pit” in Chicago, and a couple in the 414 area code whose primary draw was ANSI art and .MOD music files. I branched out now and again, but I had my regular spots.
re: #126 Dangerman
‘machines’ that were actual soda dispensers, not can/ bottle dispensers
the cup dropped and then the soda was poured in
often the cup didn’t always drop into place
At least the soda tasted like the bottles.
Now the “coffee” machines that worked that way? Uhg. Even the instant coffee in the C rations tasted better than that nastiness.
re: #106 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
You could also play the tone(s) a pay phone used to indicate a coin had been inserted and then play it back into the mouth piece to spoof the system.
Robert Redford, Three Days of the Condor, around an hour and 30 minutes in.
(among hundreds of movies and novels)
re: #113 DodgerFan1988
The Right Wing Twitterverse blaming Tyre Nichols for his own murder.
Explain Tamir Rice
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
do NOT accept the premise of the question
Should atheists be allowed to run for office?
— ꧁Rhea꧂ (@TheTweetOfRhea) January 27, 2023
re: #131 Dangerman
Explain Tamir Rice
Philando Castile did everything exactly right and was still executed for being a legally armed black man.
re: #127 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Not sure. The ones I frequented most were some local Waco TX boards, “The Hell Pit” in Chicago, and a couple in the 414 area code whose primary draw was ANSI art and .MOD music files. I branched out now and again, but I had my regular spots.
It was a mainly C-64 related back then. Cracked software and what not.
re: #134 William Lewis
Philando Castile did everything exactly right and was still executed for being a legally armed black man.
John Crawford.
what… what do I do here? do I lift it pic.twitter.com/bK5aF81vkY
— Adam Cerious (@Browtweaten) January 28, 2023
re: #135 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I was definitely eager to get my hands on cracked software. “Holy shit, DESQview is 6 megabytes, this will take all day to download!”
Then at 98% complete your mom picks up the phone and fucks up the file transfer.
Good times.
re: #131 Dangerman
hell, don’t those guys have cars and radios, wtf did he do that was worth taking his life for?
A day out with dad.
Wife and I were going to the valley (as we call it here, the largest close city to us other than Youngstown OH). So I asked dad if he wanted to come along and we could grab some lunch/dinner. He has been declining for a few years with Alzheimer’s. So after we finally talked him into changing from his PJ bottoms and T-shirt (which he was insisting was fine to go out wearing) to outside clothes we headed south.
I took his dog out back behind the pole barn by the out buildings to do its business before we left and snapped this shot from his backyard.
We had a good time. The Alzheimer’s hasn’t affected his sense of being goofy. Here is my wife and him getting out of the car at the Mexican restaurant we ate at. I told them to stop and look back at me and dad did this.
Tom Verlaine has gone to the great gig in the sky
rollingstone.com
re: #53 Charles Johnson
Is there anyone else who’s having trouble getting in?
If I leave for long periods of time without logging (sp?) out it hangs for me for a couple of minutes if I try to post or click for new posts. It’s not a big deal, but it started around the time of the great transition.
re: #126 Dangerman
‘machines’ that were actual soda dispensers, not can/ bottle dispensers
the cup dropped and then the soda was poured in
often the cup didn’t always drop into place
re: #129 William Lewis
At least the soda tasted like the bottles.
Now the “coffee” machines that worked that way? Uhg. Even the instant coffee in the C rations tasted better than that nastiness.
We still have both kinds of machines here. You’d think with fifty years to improve the technology, they’d do so.
Winter Storm Warning just went up for my area … light snow through Monday producing 8” of snow.
re: #113 DodgerFan1988
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The Right Wing Twitterverse blaming Tyre Nichols for his own murder.
They’re the ones always complaining about tyranny.
re: #132 Dangerman
do NOT accept the premise of the question
The person asking is an atheist. She is trying to see who will come out and say “no.”
The only thing that protects atheists’ rights to run for office and serve as witnesses in trials from state constitutions like Maryland and Pennsylvania is a Supreme Court decision. I imagine there are already Republican lawmakers trying to get a case in front of the Supreme Court to get that decision overturned.
re: #134 William Lewis
Philando Castile did everything exactly right and was still executed for being a legally armed black man.
And the NRA was nowhere to be found to defend him.
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We still have both kinds of machines here. You’d think with fifty years to improve the technology, they’d do so.
Winter Storm Warning just went up for my area … light snow through Monday producing 8” of snow.
8” is a light snow???
re: #137 teleskiguy
george santos wrote it
what… what do I do here? do I lift it pic.twitter.com/bK5aF81vkY
— Adam Cerious (@Browtweaten) January 28, 2023
re: #131 Dangerman
Explain Tamir Rice
But Ashlii Babbett is somehow different. I can’t imagine what colours their opinion there.
re: #140 piratedan
hell, don’t those guys have cars and radios, wtf did he do that was worth taking his life for?
they think everyone is an instantaneous overwhelming threat to their safety
as to your comment, i’ve often said what separates us from the police is not their guns, it’s radios.
in the heat of the night (happens to be on tv right now) 33:17
- Now we’re grindin’ corn! - You shoulda been there!
- lf it weren’t for them radios, we woulda lost him goin’ over that bridge.
See here’s one who gets it correct, right at the top of the responses.
When conservatives (especially pastors) start talking about children’s sex lives or education, you call them a pervert.
This person deserves all the upvotes.
Perv
— HumansAreNotIllegal 🏳️🌈🌊 #BLM 💙💙🏈🏈 (@Catluvah3) January 28, 2023
Sex ed classes are a helluva lot safer for children than churches.
re: #153 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
See here’s one who gets it correct, right at the top of the responses.
When conservatives (especially pastors) start talking about children’s sex lives or education, you call them a pervert.
This person deserves all the upvotes.
Sex ed classes are a helluva lot safer for children than churches.
i said above change sex ed to any other class - english, science, math whatever, and you’d get the same response from the school
you’re not allowed to be in the school
then again they’d probably think the school is ‘hiding’ all kinds of things in english, science, math, whatever
im gonna make some dinner
at least the food around here doesnt have an attitude
re: #154 Dangerman
i said above change sex ed to any other class - english, science, math whatever, and you’d get the same response from the school
you’re not allowed to be in the school
then again they’d probably think the school is ‘hiding’ all kinds of things in english, science, math, whatever
Our schools here permit adults to sit in on such classes, though they have to request it and make an appointment. That was the same when I went to school in Michigan.
On a good note, nearly everyone in that thread is calling the pastor a pervert.
That word needs to come out more often when conservatives creep on children.
re: #143 Barefoot Grin
If I leave for long periods of time without logging (sp?) out it hangs for me for a couple of minutes if I try to post or click for new posts. It’s not a big deal, but it started around the time of the great transition.
Update: it’s been running pretty smoothly this evening. I walked the dog and after an hour was able to jump back in. So maybe no problem.
re: #153 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
See here’s one who gets it correct, right at the top of the responses.
When conservatives (especially pastors) start talking about children’s sex lives or education, you call them a pervert.
This person deserves all the upvotes.
Sex ed classes are a helluva lot safer for children than churches.
Not all parents are pervs:
Lansing mom slams son’s sex ed class in tweets
Alice is a friend of mine and she’s a professor of medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University and founder of the local news cooperative East Lansing Info. She did this back in 2015 and it was brilliant.
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not all parents are pervs:
Lansing mom slams son’s sex ed class in tweets
Alice is a friend of mine and she’s a professor of medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University and founder of the local news cooperative East Lansing Info. She did this back in 2015 and it was brilliant.
I remember that. I used to see her tweets fairly regularly but haven’t in quite awhile.
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not all parents are pervs:
Lansing mom slams son’s sex ed class in tweets
Alice is a friend of mine and she’s a professor of medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University and founder of the local news cooperative East Lansing Info. She did this back in 2015 and it was brilliant.
According to the article in the Free Press, she went because her daughter invited her to the class to see how awful the instruction was.
That and a whole lot of blame-shifting from the high school.
re: #159 Barefoot Grin
I remember that. I used to see her tweets fairly regularly but haven’t in quite awhile.
yeah, she’s been silent for more than a month now, I’ll have to check in with her
re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth
yeah, she’s been silent for more than a month now, I’ll have to check in with her
An important voice of rationality.
re: #3 piratedan
If the attempted murder of Saint Ronny of Reagan didn’t change Republican views on gun control, nothing will. Ditto the murder of little White children in Sandy Hook.
re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth
yeah, she’s been silent for more than a month now, I’ll have to check in with her
OK, she’s busy with East Lansing Info
also, terfs went after her
re: #163 Patricia Kayden
If the attempted murder of Saint Ronny of Reagan didn’t change Republican views on gun control, nothing will. Ditto the murder of little White children in Sandy Hook.
Yeah, it was kinda sad the Ronny wasn’t carrying. ///
A family member who is a doctor had many first-time patients who were cops. Almost all asked for steroids. Prescription refused; each time, they went to find a new doctor. There needs to be drug testing of cops for steroids every week. And definitely after cops murder someone.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) January 28, 2023
re: #163 Patricia Kayden
If the attempted murder of Saint Ronny of Reagan didn’t change Republican views on gun control, nothing will. Ditto the murder of little White children in Sandy Hook.
The rich owners of Republican politicians don’t care. They will care when it’s the rich owners of Republicans who have to put up with this. When their neighbourhoods become shooting galleries they’ll be demanding change.
re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
According to the article in the Free Press, she went because her daughter invited her to the class to see how awful the instruction was.
That and a whole lot of blame-shifting from the high school.
It was her son’s class, and the class was pretty much abstinence only.
re: #149 Hecuba’s daughter
8” is a light snow???
Trust me. 8” of light snow is much more preferable then 8” of heavy wet snow if you’re the one with the shovel (or the skis or the snowboard).
I do know what you’re saying though.
re: #168 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The rich owners of Republican politicians don’t care. They will care when it’s the rich owners of Republicans who have to put up with this. When their neighbourhoods become shooting galleries they’ll be demanding change.
The only change they’ll want is to have private armies that can outgun the US Army, to include nuclear weapons.
I’ve thought about the idea that newspapers have seen a precipitous decline in science and technology articles (on basic science and technology, not some whiz bang new invention). I used to eat up the Sunday Detroit Free Press science section when I was a kid.
Since my regional newspaper is trying to expand its reach, I’m considering writing a letter to the newspaper suggesting they add a short section (might only be two or four pages). They don’t even necessarily need a science journalist, though that would help: They could run articles from wire services or science outlets to fill in.
Bwaaaahahahahahahahaha! No.
— Michael Allbritton (@mallbritton42) January 27, 2023
re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth
It was her son’s class, and the class was pretty much abstinence only.
Oops, misgendered her kid.
According to the article, the school tried to claim it wasn’t an abstinence-only class (it was).
re: #170 dat_said
Trust me. 8” of light snow is much more preferable then 8” of heavy wet snow if you’re the one with the shovel (or the skis or the snowboard).
I do know what you’re saying though.
It’s light snow in the sense only a little is falling at a time. It will be falling through Monday night though.
re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Oops, misgendered her kid.
According to the article, the school tried to claim it wasn’t an abstinence-only class (it was).
I know it was, I watched her live tweeting the class. It was famous moments in Twitter.
re: #20 DodgerFan1988
I really don’t see the point of being on a social media outlet which allows those kinds of views to flourish without consequences. But that’s just me.
DEAD pic.twitter.com/KxWWorQrYi
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) January 28, 2023
re: #168 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And that will never happen because they live in gated communities and are well protected.
re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s light snow in the sense only a little is falling at a time. It will be falling through Monday night though.
Yup - the kind of storm where my kids look at me like I’m bugnuts-insane when I go out Sunday evening or Monday morning to shovel. “Dad! It’s still snowing!” Those grasshoppers will learn someday. Until then, they have to listen to lectures on the pros and cons of different types of shovels and different shoveling techniques based on conditions. I’m just glad we don’t get the windblown cement-hard snow drifts here like back home in ND (we’d get those drifts sometimes even if it wasn’t snowing).
Driving through ground blizzards with blue sky above made for some interesting drives once I got to college, especially if those ground blizzards were creating finger drifts on the highway.
re: #90 wrenchwench
I didn’t have the words for it then, but I think the feeling was, ‘Oh my. The infrastructure is vulnerable.’
thus began the era of black (blue) boxes, captain crunch whistles, and the phone phreaks.
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Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin? (Nature, January 23, 2023)
Thousands of kilometres beneath your feet, Earth’s interior might be doing something very weird. Many scientists think that the inner core spins faster than the rest of the planet — but sometime in the past decade, according to a study, it apparently stopped doing so.
“We were quite surprised,” say Yi Yang and Xiaodong Song, seismologists at Peking University in Beijing who reported the findings today in Nature Geoscience1.
The results could help to shine light on the many mysteries of the deep Earth, including what part the inner core plays in maintaining the planet’s magnetic field and in affecting the speed of the whole planet’s rotation — and thus the length of a day. But they are just the latest instalment in a long-running effort to explain the inner core’s unusual rotation, and might not be the final word on the matter.
“I keep thinking we’re on the verge of figuring this out,” says John Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. “But I’m not sure.”
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Watch these mini machines transform from solid to liquid — and back again — with a magnetic field.https://t.co/Ru1uoqxaKZ
— Science News (@ScienceNews) January 28, 2023
Negotiate what? The treasury bonds China legally purchased? He and his dumb effing fanboys have no idea what this means or what it would do to the US economy. https://t.co/0ZXSTvrB6t
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) January 28, 2023
Left, 1991.
Right, 2023. pic.twitter.com/hy6UoJHwmG— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) January 28, 2023
re: #24 Charles Johnson
I don’t worry about AI. It’s still just artificial stupidity in my opinion.
Mostly because it’s hard to fake something if a person doesn’t really know what it is.
Ms. Downs here is invoking the “rabid atheist” trope, except against abortion.
What sort of “centrist” position is she proposing here, only do an abortion halfway?
What utter nonsense. Pro choice people are pro choice not because they are misled but because they value bodily autonomy. Nobody is pro abortion. https://t.co/Akm8DTrMOy
— 🇦🇺 Pink Heretic (@pinkheretic) January 28, 2023
re: #24 Charles Johnson
Militaries will deploy killer robots in what, about 10 years from now?
re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She’s wrong. I’m pro-abortion if that is the decision of the Doctor and the pregnant woman (or girl). There’s nothing wrong with abortion.
re: #191 Patricia Kayden
She’s wrong. I’m pro-abortion if that is the decision of the Doctor and the pregnant woman (or girl). There’s nothing wrong with abortion.
And I’m anti-abortion if the decision of the woman/girl and the doctor is opposed to it.
I prefer pro-choice, because the decision to have a baby or not is a choice.
There is no arguing with these fucks.
Ashli Babbitt was attempting to breach a chamber of Congress with an armed and violent mob by her side. She was shot. She wasn’t tortured to death.
They’re going to make this disgusting comparison because they are the scum of the Earth.— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) January 28, 2023
Using pepper spray on a man like you’re spraying bugs. Allowing your humanity to be so stripped away that you don’t pause when you hear a grown man calling for his mother. Using the word “bro” when you make demands while inflicting violence. What have you become? On whose behalf?
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) January 28, 2023
re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And I’m anti-abortion if the decision of the woman/girl and the doctor is opposed to it.
I prefer pro-choice, because the decision to have a baby or not is a choice.
Abortion is always safer than birth. Earlier abortions are safer than later abortions (to a point). I’m for safety and free choice.
Something that will always stay with me when I was assaulted by police a few years ago was them yelling “stop resisting” over and over as they manhandled me. I realized then that they are trained to yell certain things/phrases so they can justify their violence.
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) January 28, 2023
Bullard Block https://t.co/hc0d2Wzp1a pic.twitter.com/OWdWGM630O
— Old L.A. Photos (@OldLAPhotos) January 29, 2023
Wasn’t this the guy who called the Russian invasion of Ukraine “genius”?!? https://t.co/O18E0T9sRA
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) January 29, 2023
The peaceful protests in Memphis have gone largely uncovered in national media. Are they less important than protests that are more “dramatic?” And what does it mean to champion for a peacefulness that so tightly correlates with lack of coverage? https://t.co/J8tDAJFSvb
— Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay) January 28, 2023
Barrett Jackson, Scottsdale is on the History Channel tonight.
Some impressive iron tonite.
re: #167 ckkatz
Agree. Can we get an educational program also to teach people to comply with police, let themselves be handcuffed, and file any complaint at a later time? Or is everybody going to keep pretending that it’s not a key component of the overall problem
— DC1958 (@DC19583) January 28, 2023
No.
Hell, no.
Fuck no.
I’m white as fuck and disabled.
No.
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
Used to visit Memphis several times per year for work. It struck me as a chill, multiracial place. Sorry that the police are out of control even there. At least these ones should be easily convicted.
JFC
Despicable people court other despicable people.
Elon Musk asserts yet again that the break in and violent assault of Paul Pelosi is a “questionable and bizarre situation between two men in their underwear.” DePape was wearing hiking shorts when he broke in and in police video. pic.twitter.com/O9o3WTDRek— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) January 29, 2023
re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump: Putin would have never gone in. Even now, I could solve that in 24 hours
So what’s stopping you?
There’s be a Nobel. A real one.
re: #207 Sherlock Hound
Spitballing here:
simply teach cops to respect people* and their rights.
*You know, who they’re supposed to protect and serve
re: #167 ckkatz
I work out at the YMCA daily and yes there are cops in the locker room who DO talk about their steroid cycles and they preen in front of the mirror as if they are competing in the Mr. Olympia contest. And have I said anything about the gang tattoos I see on them????
Ok, what did I do wrong there? I pasted the embed link for this Toot.
re: #215 Unabogie
Nevermind, you just paste the link. Nice job, Charles!
re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth
NPR made the point every time I heard the news today, but I did not see or hear on any other service.
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