The Bob Cesca Podcast: Sit Down, Peter Doocy

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Sit Down, Peter Doocy — [Explicit Language] We await the indictment of Donald Trump in NYC for his hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. The excuses from Trump’s fanboys. The chances of far-right violence shouldn’t be underestimated. CBS News reports a significant increase in threats. Jim Jordan illegally interfering in Alvin Bragg’s case. Flashback: Trump and protecting the heads of suspects. Fani Willis is looking at racketeering and conspiracy charges. Mar-a-lago staffers subpoenaed by Jack Smith. Beryl Howell’s parting gift to Jack Smith. The Whale and Ted Lasso. With Buzz Burbank, music by Arachnophilia, Marina Rocks, and more!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 21, 2023 • 2:58:36pm
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Joe Bacon  Mar 21, 2023 • 2:59:16pm

Right now I need a Stooge Break.

Best of Shemp Howard (The Three Stooges)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:03:45pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

Isn’t protesting at residences illegal in Florida now?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:08:03pm

re: #3 GlutenFreeJesus

Isn’t protesting at residences illegal in Florida now?

this kind doesn’t count

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:10:49pm

This is why I read Spin magazine.

As edited by Rolling Stone Editor-in-Chief Noah Shachtman, however, the article omitted a key fact that Siegel initially intended to include: Siegel had learned from her sources that Meek had been raided as part of a federal investigation into images of child sex abuse, something not publicly revealed until last month.

Why did Rolling Stone suggest Meek was targeted for his coverage of national security, rather than something unrelated to his journalism?

Neither Siegel nor Shachtman would comment for this story. This article is based on a review of some contemporaneous communications and also interviews with 10 people with knowledge of incidents described here, including several individuals at Rolling Stone, as well as people at ABC and federal law enforcement agencies.

Each asked not to be named because they were not authorized to disclose these matters publicly.

The FBI raided a notable journalist’s home. Rolling Stone didn’t tell readers why (NPR)

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Egregious Philbin  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:11:40pm

re: #2 Joe Bacon

Shemp is the best. Drew Friedman loves drawing him, lots of amazing bits of art.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:15:54pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

That made me curious if there were any cases of ‘counterfeit’ Trump flags/merch, and sure enough:

April 16, 2020
Tennessee Couple Selling Fake Trump Campaign Merch Out of Wrapped Bus Gets Cease and Desist
magazine.promomarketing.com

Weighing the importance of candidate support vs. making bank from the brand?
The grift comes first.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:16:15pm
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Joe Bacon  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:16:49pm

re: #6 Egregious Philbin

Shemp is the best. Drew Friedman loves drawing him, lots of amazing bits of art.

I love Drew Friedman. This is one he drew to honor Stooge foil Vernon Dent.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:17:11pm
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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:17:13pm

From downstairs:

re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:17:59pm

re: #10 jaunte

What in the Holy Hell?

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:18:15pm

re: #10 jaunte

Not a Drag Queen.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:18:19pm

Robert Shiflet, former youth pastor of Denton Bible Church, was sentenced to 33 months as part of a plea deal, but has been released early for good behavior. His survivors say they did not receive notice of his early release for more than six weeks.
fox4news.com

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:18:45pm

“…Shiflet, 52, is now living in Weatherford, Texas where he is required to register as a sex offender. He will also be under supervision for life.”

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:19:25pm

His church knew.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:19:47pm

re: #10 jaunte

People need to keep a close eye on too-old youth pastors. They’re in it for the access to vulnerable young people.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:20:40pm

re: #10 jaunte

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And that ass still smiles after what he did.

DIS
GUS
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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:21:47pm

This is the thing that drove my wife out of the church when she was a young teen. The girls knew the men that were dangerous, but the adults didn’t want to know and would punish ‘that kind of nasty talk about a godly man.’

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:23:47pm

re: #11 Dopamine Fish

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:24:21pm

The Whole Of The Law Shall Be
Don’t Rock The Boat

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Joe Bacon  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:24:24pm

re: #19 jaunte

Memories of school gym class even in the 5th and 6th grades in the locker room the boys would talk about what priests to stay away from…and the talk got awfully creepy…

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:25:26pm

re: #19 jaunte

This is the thing that drove my wife out of the church when she was a young teen. The girls knew the men that were dangerous, but the adults didn’t want to know and would punish ‘that kind of nasty talk about a godly man.’

Not as serious as this, but I’m reminded of my parents being ostracized and eventually leaving a church after exposing the pastor as a crook who used church money for personal ends. When asked why they voted unanimously in favor of retaining the pastor after clear and irrefutable evidence of his crimes was presented, the board said, “Because he’s the pastor…”

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No Malarkey!  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:26:47pm
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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:27:23pm

re: #23 Dopamine Fish

“Sure he’s a crook, but we would have to do a search and probably find another crook.”

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:28:44pm

re: #25 jaunte

“Sure he’s a crook, but we would have to do a search and probably find another crook.”

Nearly 2 decades later, but I heard that the pastor was finally sent “into the mission field,” which is Evangelical code talk for, “He finally did something we couldn’t look the other way on, but we’re going to let him keep his dignity and piety.” $20 says he was sleeping with some of his buddies’ wives.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:28:59pm

re: #25 jaunte

“Sure he’s a crook, but we would have to do a search and probably find another crook.”

“And he’s OUR crook!”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:30:14pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, he’s calling it a protest. ;)

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:32:05pm

re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth

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No Malarkey!  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:33:14pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:33:45pm

re: #28 GlutenFreeJesus

Unlwaful?

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Jay C  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:35:02pm

re: #28 GlutenFreeJesus

[Embedded content]

Well, he’s calling it a protest. ;)

“Bullhorns?”

To chant through, or to wear??

Or both….😵‍💫

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:35:03pm

Dresipnet Mrupt.

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:36:00pm

re: #30 No Malarkey!

[Embedded content]

He needs a monocle.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:36:29pm

re: #28 GlutenFreeJesus

What is depressing is knowing that I have several brainwashed relatives who didn’t learn the previous lesson and they are stupid enough to go down to Mar A Lardo along with a couple folks I went to high school with.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:36:57pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:37:01pm

.

What Do We Do Now


.

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Jay C  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:37:27pm

re: #33 jaunte

Dresipnet Mrupt.

I read this, at first glance, as “Designer Muppet”.
Works, though.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:42:29pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:44:35pm

re: #29 Dopamine Fish

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Egregious Philbin  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:45:02pm

re: #9 Joe Bacon

Drew did a few of Gilbert Gottfried’s podcasts, they were wonderful.

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gocart mozart  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:49:35pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:49:58pm

Cat Running in Snow

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:50:42pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:51:14pm

As several posters have pointed out, the sale means that Unilever is not responsbile for Cohen’s current support of Russian conquest. He is a drooling ass-maggot in any case.

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Captain Magic  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:55:44pm

DPReview to close next month

dpreview.com

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William Lewis  Mar 21, 2023 • 3:58:48pm

re: #46 Captain Magic

DPReview to close next month

dpreview.com

There is some data that will be missed. The forums there, however, are a cesspool and will not be missed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:00:41pm

I’m back.

I WON THE LOTTO!

Click to Reveal

Two free tickets

Lemme go read the new thread here.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:02:09pm

re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yay!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:02:49pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

Isn’t the conservative argument about protestors “don’t these people have jobs?”

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:04:32pm

Mastodon

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:04:40pm

re: #31 Crush White Nationalism

Look for minorities in the crowd.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:06:28pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:06:45pm

Hee. The geriatric S&M group in Lubbock is quite real. It’s not illegal but there is a big police file on them because people keep thinking it’s illegal and reporting them.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:07:27pm

Child abusing rebellion against the feds. The GOP brand.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:09:36pm
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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:19:40pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:20:01pm

First thought it said “American Terrorist”

American tourist drives red Ferrari into pedestrian-only plaza in Italy, cops say

A 43-year-old tourist from the U.S. was visiting Florence on the afternoon of Monday, March 20, according to a news release from the City of Florence. The American tourist was driving a red Ferrari when he went the wrong way down a street and parked in a pedestrian-only area of the Piazza della Signoria, authorities said.

Tracking American boorishness is a thing with Italian media, not least because visiting boors give them so much rich material.
From January:
Medieval Italian bridge was pedestrian-only — until California tourist arrived, cops say

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:22:58pm

re: #58 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

First thought it said “American Terrorist”

American tourist drives red Ferrari into pedestrian-only plaza in Italy, cops say

Tracking American boorishness is a thing with Italian media, not least because visiting boors give them so much rich material.
From January:
Medieval Italian bridge was pedestrian-only — until California tourist arrived, cops say

I did that in Germany in 2010 or so. Missed the small “Do Not Enter” signs and went into a pedestrian-only area in a small town. I simply missed the left turn into the parking area I was looking for. I did immediately note someone getting my attention to tell me what I’d done and got turned around without causing much of a disruption.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:27:07pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle is off to do some shopping at Preston’s.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 641 4/6

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SibData: 3,3,4,4

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:29:35pm

re: #14 jaunte

Robert Shiflet, former youth pastor of Denton Bible Church, was sentenced to 33 months as part of a plea deal, but has been released early for good behavior. His survivors say they did not receive notice of his early release for more than six weeks.
fox4news.com

How did he get such a minimal sentence in the first place? That’s ridiculous. Were these reduced charges in exchange for sparing the girls from testifying? I know that it can be traumatic for women, let alone children, to testify against those who assaulted them

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gocart mozart  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:29:44pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:32:37pm

Long thread on the debate now going on in the Nebraska Unicameral on the anti-trans bill LB574.

My state senator Steve Erdman invokes God and the Bible in the thread for his support.

First tweet of many clips (2:08)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:33:29pm

re: #46 Captain Magic

DPReview to close next month

dpreview.com

I remember when it started. And when I was in Japan I used to post on dpreview very often.

But I grew tired of the constant newbies and their gnattering, and the owner eventually sold out and the “reviews” became nothing more than those photo magazines which turned into 100% marketing.

It’s a sign of the time, really. The early waves of the World Wide Web are now like fossils, found in the few sand beaches which underwent some sort of massive sedimentation event that preserved the evidence buried.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:34:36pm

re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Whoops, left out the clip.

The Democratic state senators are all going in on threatening to restart the filibuster if they don’t pull the bill.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:35:09pm

So is Trump under arrest? That was supposed to happen today, wasn’t it?

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:35:38pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

So is Trump under arrest? That was supposed to happen today, wasn’t it?

That’s what Trump said would happen.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:35:41pm

OK, I admit I’ve paid zero attention to the news today.

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:35:54pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

So is Trump under arrest? That was supposed to happen today, wasn’t it?

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:37:55pm

Upwards of two feet of snow expected up in the mountains over the next couple of days. One of my local ski hills I have a pass to closes in less than two weeks.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:38:18pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

#HappeningNow Trump Supporters gathered outside of Maralargo in Florida as former President Trump’s Indictment looms.

Based upon my experience in dealing with the PTB in Palm Beach, suspect they’re tired of Trump as a noisy nuisance.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:39:47pm

re: #67 Crush White Nationalism

That’s what Trump said would happen.

Hasn’t our experience with Trump been that he would release information prematurely so that when the event actually occurred it would be old news barely worth covering? Isn’t that what may be happening now so there will be far less journalistic interest when the arrest happens next week, if it ever really happens.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:40:03pm

Debate in the legislature is now adjourned until Wednesday, to break the filibuster. The clock is still ticking on the must-pass legislation before the legislative session ends. Wednesday they will take up the anti-trans bill again, which means the filibuster will start again.

Megan Hunt’s amendment attached to the bill to prohibit Christian indoctrination of minors was defeated on a party-line vote.

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austin_blue  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:40:20pm

From the last thread, The “Harrowing of Hell” in the Baltimore Catechism (Catholic Dogma) in Medieval Times wasn’t between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, it was Christ the Infant between His birth and His Bris.

Just look at this Medieval text from Benjamin Britenn’s Symphony of Carols:

Benjamin Britten
This Little Babe

“This little babe just three days old,
Is come to rival Satan’s hold
All hell doth at his presence quake,
though he himself for cold do shake;
For in this weak unarmored wise
the gates of hell he will surprise.

With tears he fights and wins the field,
his naked breast stands for a shield.
His battering shot are babish cries,
his arrows looks of weeping eyes.
His martial ensigns Cold and Need,
and feeble flesh his warrior’s steed.

His camp is pitched in a stall,
his bulwark but a broken wall;
The crib his trench, haystalks his stakes,
of shepherds he his muster makes.
And thus as sure his foe to wound,
the angels’ trumps alarum sound

My soul with Christ
join thou in fight;
stick to the tents
that he hath pight.
Within his crib
is surest ward;
this little Babe
will by thy guard.

If thou wilt foil thy
foes with joy, then
flit not from this
heavenly boy!”

Also, listen to the piece. A brilliant choral piece:

Britten’s “This Little Babe” with Lyrics

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:42:36pm

re: #3 GlutenFreeJesus

Isn’t protesting at residences illegal in Florida now?

They are protesting on the bridge between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. That’s where they usually hold their rallies (they are seen better there by everyone who enters or leaves the island). They are nowhere near Mar-a-Grifto.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:44:46pm

re: #3 GlutenFreeJesus

Isn’t protesting at residences illegal in Florida now?

Not if you’re a Trump supporter.

Although I expect that to be changed to a DeSantis supporter in the near future.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:44:46pm

re: #10 jaunte

I have to ask. Is the good pastor what our texas christians consider to be a predator? Or will their definition twist and wind about but never touch him?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:46:52pm

re: #70 teleskiguy

Upwards of two feet of snow expected up in the mountains over the next couple of days. One of my local ski hills I have a pass to closes in less than two weeks.

Sucked missing you last weekend. But from the picture you took of the bridge, I am going to assume you stopped in at the visitor center.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:47:28pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:49:58pm
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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:51:54pm

re: #61 Hecuba’s daughter

How did he get such a minimal sentence in the first place? That’s ridiculous. Were these reduced charges in exchange for sparing the girls from testifying? I know that it can be traumatic for women, let alone children, to testify against those who assaulted them

According to this report, speculation was that they were concerned about the girls, and the prosecutor made a mistake:

dentonrc.com

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:54:11pm

Making up an insulting nickname “Crooked” for your opponent does not make them a criminal.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:54:38pm

re: #77 sizzzzlerz

I have to ask. Is the good pastor what our texas christians consider to be a predator? Or will their definition twist and wind about but never touch him?

As in domestic terrorism, these guys are all considered lone wolves, because no one will blame the system they exploit.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:55:09pm

re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They are protesting on the bridge between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. That’s where they usually hold their rallies (they are seen better there by everyone who enters or leaves the island). They are nowhere near Mar-a-Grifto.

The Palm Beach PD do not fuck around.

There are two bridges to Palm Beach proper. Suspect the protests are held on the south bridge as it’s closer to M-a-L.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:58:12pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:58:28pm

And we’re underway in the World Baseball Classic final.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 21, 2023 • 4:58:33pm

For those who are interested: American Masters series featuring Dr Tony Fauci.
whyy.org
Hit the live button to watch it.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:01:57pm

re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That nub that sticks out into the Pacific is Cape Mendocino. It’s the western-most point of land in the continental US. You can drive a narrow, twisty road from highway 101 right to it where there is a beach that runs north and south for a couple miles. What is unique about the cape is that, a couple of miles offshore there is a triple junction where 3 geological plates meet: the Gorda, the Pacific, and the North American. This means it is a prime location for earthquakes and is why Ferndale gets rocked frequently. I’ve stood on that beach and wondered what might happen if a big quake were to happen at that instant. You can’t help but feel very exposed and very vulnerable there in that wind-blown, desolate place.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:10:51pm

Mastodon

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:10:58pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:11:13pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:11:29pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

I know that tune!

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:14:24pm

re: #91 Charles Johnson

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:14:35pm

re: #91 Charles Johnson

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Yes, it’s nauseating.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:15:27pm

And CNN is busy trying to get John Sununu elected.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:15:46pm

re: #95 Barefoot Grin

And CNN is busy trying to get John Sununu elected.

Good luck with that.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:19:45pm

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:20:50pm

re: #25 jaunte

“Sure he’s a crook, but we would have to do a search and probably find another crook.”

“Sure he’s a crook, but he’s our crook.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:21:37pm

So I had to go to my old message list on my Mac Mail program to see what email address I used for dpreview… found it… then had to reset the password on Yahoo for that email because I’ve not checked the email for a month or so and Yahoo keeps thinking someone has tried too many failed logins… then once that is done I go to dpreview and request a password change… got that email and clicked on it and finally I can read my old posts on dpreview.

4482 forum entries from 2003 to 1 January 2012, though that is my only post in 2012, and only 2 posts in 2011. So 4479 posts through 2010.

I used to post there a lot.

When I started the old Canon vs. Nikon thing was raging intently.

I guess we all expected that once cameras could take pictures that the market for digicams would collapse.

Now so much that I guess Amazon thinks it is not worth keeping dpreview alive.

Sad, but all things change.

And pass away.

The internet is not forever. Don’t try to let them convince you it is.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:23:54pm

re: #99 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The internet is not forever. Don’t try to let them convince you it is.

This is one of the aspects of the shift to subscription software that’s a bit concerning.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:26:00pm

I imagine that’s a bummer for traffic.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:35:26pm

re: #100 jaunte

This is one of the aspects of the shift to subscription software that’s a bit concerning.

I’m still of the mindset that we are living in what future centuries will call a “dark age”, because after a couple of generations of nearly all aspects of life being stored on easily erased digital assets, once our societies go through crises and mini-collapses, there will be a century or so of missing information.

I really do believe that by the year 2200 that physical records on paper will re-emerge as how societies keep track of themselves.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:38:41pm
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Captain Ron  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:39:23pm

re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s quite windy here. The low pressure is right on the edge of the bay area.

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William Lewis  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:40:38pm

re: #102 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’m still of the mindset that we are living in what future centuries will call a “dark age”, because after a couple of generations of nearly all aspects of life being stored on easily erased digital assets, once our societies go through crises and mini-collapses, there will be a century or so of missing information.

I really do believe that by the year 2200 that physical records on paper will re-emerge as how societies keep track of themselves.

I expect digital to survive on write once, read only crystalline materials. Backwards compatibility will be required making it no harder than reading documents from, say, 1600 today.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:41:41pm

Mastodon

mastodon.social

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:42:12pm

re: #78 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Sucked missing you last weekend. But from the picture you took of the bridge, I am going to assume you stopped in at the visitor center.

You are correct, ma’am!

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Charles Johnson  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:42:46pm

Mastodon

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:44:17pm

“Asshole Republican” seems to be the top choice among the Stonekettle faithful.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:48:10pm

re: #53 jaunte

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So in this analogy, Trump is Koresh, and MAGA are the Branch Dravidians who burned to death.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:48:19pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:48:35pm

Amazon is demonstrating what our corporate future is becoming.

They offer this massive “cloud” storage option for users… only later to say they are closing it.

They buy one of the pioneers of the web camera review/forum sites… promote it… use it for advertising… then decide to close it.

I tell you once again, the internet is not forever.

I have a nearly 100 year old photo of my mother and her brother.

I bet that in 100 years no one will be able to find the digital photo their ancestors took today. If it was printed on neutral (ph 7) paper and printed with pigment printers… maybe they will have that.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:50:10pm

To be even more blunt: I will be sad when LGF goes away. This has been my primary online commenting outlet since 2007 (replacing among other things dpreview.)

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Charles Johnson  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:50:14pm

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:51:37pm

This is why I think it troubling that so many people have made Facebook their genealogy/family history repository.

When Facebook goes away so much family history will be lost.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:52:18pm

re: #114 Charles Johnson

The more their worldview is exposed as being collapsed, the more ardent and dangerous they become.

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William Lewis  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:54:25pm

My new toy arrived

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:55:21pm

re: #59 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I did that in Germany in 2010 or so. Missed the small “Do Not Enter” signs and went into a pedestrian-only area in a small town. I simply missed the left turn into the parking area I was looking for. I did immediately note someone getting my attention to tell me what I’d done and got turned around without causing much of a disruption.

I did that in Sevilla when I was stationed in Spain. I misread a sign and took a left turn in my Nissan onto a pedestrian stairway down to a main street.

Fortunately there weren’t any pedestrians and the steps were shallow and wide. I was really embarrassed by the time I got to the bottom.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:55:55pm

We had one and a quarter inch of rain from last night until about noon today. A brief moment this morning was an intense downpour.

And that is supposed the “light” rain, compared to what is expected tonight.

We are at double are average water year rainfall.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 5:59:00pm

re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Amazon is demonstrating what our corporate future is becoming.

They offer this massive “cloud” storage option for users… only later to say they are closing it.

They buy one of the pioneers of the web camera review/forum sites… promote it… use it for advertising… then decide to close it.

I tell you once again, the internet is not forever.

I have a nearly 100 year old photo of my mother and her brother.

I bet that in 100 years no one will be able to find the digital photo their ancestors took today. If it was printed on neutral (ph 7) paper and printed with pigment printers… maybe they will have that.

Same here. I have the five-generation photograph taken when I was two and my sister was an infant, taken of the women’s side of my mother’s family. (My sister, me, mother, her mother, her mother, and her mother.) The photograph was taken in 1962 on my great-grandmother’s farm.

I need to get the photograph reprinted somehow so there are backup copies.

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sagehen  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:01:26pm

re: #102 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’m still of the mindset that we are living in what future centuries will call a “dark age”, because after a couple of generations of nearly all aspects of life being stored on easily erased digital assets, once our societies go through crises and mini-collapses, there will be a century or so of missing information.

Except for endless stacks of never-opened New Yorker magazines. Our descendants will see the post-election cartoons from 2016 and think, “oh, so that’s what happened.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:02:12pm

re: #109 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

“Asshole Republican” seems to be the top choice among the Stonekettle faithful.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:03:29pm

Behold the majesty of the PDP-11.

arstechnica.com

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Charles Johnson  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:05:05pm

Only $20,000 for 4K of RAM and paper tape storage.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:05:09pm

re: #114 Charles Johnson

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In Fall Neal Stephenson imagined most of America having become “Americastan,” a land dominated by gun wielding religious fanatics, for whom conspiracy theories fed to them by bots have almost completely replaced reality. IOW, only a slight exaggeration of our reality.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:06:28pm

‘I hate being factually wrong’: Tucker Carlson owns up to spreading fake ‘dead voters’ story

alternet.org

Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson poured his heart out over his leaked text messages trashing former President Donald Trump and his lies about the 2020 election during a call-in to Tuesday’s edition of Bo Snerdly’s Rush Hour.

“Tucker, listen, I’ve had a number of people saying they read all these things in the paper — ‘you hate Trump blah, blah, blah.’ But this it - does Tucker like Trump’s policies, any policies of his? What’s the deal with you and Donald Trump?” host Bo Snerdly queried.

Well, that right there, right there - I hate being factually wrong. I mean, I’ve got a lot of opinions that you may think are stupid and maybe they are stupid and maybe I changed them at some point and I’m always transparent about that. If, you know, the facts change, my opinion changes. I think that’s the way you’re supposed to live. But I can’t stand getting the facts wrong. That’s just - there’s no excuse for that. And we got it wrong. And by the way, yes we should have, I should have, I should have checked to see if those voters were actually dead. And I didn’t. And I took this staffer’s word for it and now that I’m saying it out loud, I mean, that’s my fault. At the time, I was blaming the Trump campaign. And I was, I was livid. Buhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhhuh. I don’t miss it.

All Fucker C had to do is confess that he is a lying asshole…

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:06:51pm

JMP START
TFG PRISN

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No Malarkey!  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:07:32pm
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William Lewis  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:08:03pm

re: #123 Charles Johnson

Behold the majesty of the PDP-11.

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arstechnica.com

Sigh. An 11/94, 4mb ram, SCSI & Ethernet and a tape of BSD 2.11… Finest 16 bit environment ever made. Telnet in and play dungeon or moria while your c program compiled in the background.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:09:13pm

The Libertarian Party getting its advice from cat shyte.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:10:42pm

re: #123 Charles Johnson

Behold the majesty of the PDP-11.

[Embedded content]

arstechnica.com

I’ll bet that’s one my wife worked on. She used to have one in her garage (working) until she sold it to a collector in 2006.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:11:08pm

re: #128 No Malarkey!

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Can’t say I can recall a court ordering attorneys to pull an all-nighter, but alrighty then.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:12:03pm

re: #123 Charles Johnson

Behold the majesty of the PDP-11.

[Embedded content]

arstechnica.com

They don’t all look that nice.

.

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:13:49pm

re: #53 jaunte

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A bunch of people should show up in dark suits waving around paper like a subpoena.

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Cheechako  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:15:12pm

So, can we survive another infection crisis?

Deadly fungal infection rapidly spreading in U.S. health facilities

A deadly and highly-drug resistant fungus is spreading at “an alarming rate” in long-term care hospitals and other health facilities caring for very sick people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday.

Fungal infections from the yeast strain known as Candida auris tripled nationally from 476 in 2019 to 1,471 in 2021, according to CDC data. Cases where a person carries the fungus but is not infected nearly quadrupled from 1,077 to 4,040 in the same time period. Preliminary data suggests the numbers have continued to rise.

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William Lewis  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:16:38pm

re: #133 Crush White Nationalism

They don’t all look that nice.

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.

Flippy switches and blinken lights are fun, but this is the face of getting work done:

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Charles Johnson  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:16:48pm

Maybe they’re waiting to indict Trump for the 5:00 Friday news dump.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:18:03pm

re: #135 Cheechako

“…About 30% to 60% of infected people have died from the yeast, though that is “based on information from a limited number of patients,” the CDC said.”
npr.org

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:18:12pm

re: #67 Crush White Nationalism

That’s what Trump said would happen.

The quote was from Trump, not from any official.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:19:59pm

“…C. auris can persist on surfaces in healthcare environments and spread between patients in healthcare facilities. Patients who have a long stay in an intensive care unit, have serious medical conditions, and who have previously received antibiotics or antifungal medications, appear to be at highest risk of infection.”

“…Meticulous attention to infection prevention and control, including good hand hygiene (either hand washing with soap and water or hand sanitizing with an alcohol-based hand rub), is critical for everyone including healthcare personnel and healthcare facility visitors.”
health.ny.gov

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:21:24pm

re: #109 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

“Asshole Republican” seems to be the top choice among the Stonekettle faithful.

LOL on this one dragging right-wingers (5:19)

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Charles Johnson  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:22:18pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:25:22pm
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retired cynic  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:25:58pm

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Captain Ron  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:28:56pm
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Captain Ron  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:29:12pm
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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:30:47pm

re: #144 retired cynic

It’s tempting to imagine him overwhelmed, until you remember sociopaths don’t experience anxiety.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:35:05pm

re: #70 teleskiguy

Upwards of two feet of snow expected up in the mountains over the next couple of days. One of my local ski hills I have a pass to closes in less than two weeks.

Will the ski resorts extend their seasons if they have sufficient snow? I don’t know enough about that business to know if they could make enough money to justify extending a couple weeks or a month for more visitors.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:35:32pm

re: #147 jaunte

It’s tempting to imagine him overwhelmed, until you remember sociopaths don’t experience anxiety.

Web MD says differently, and I like to think he’s entirely freaking out.

People often confuse the terms sociopath and psychopath and use them interchangeably. They aren’t different in the clinical sense. Both terms refer to people who have antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). Those with ASPD have no regard for others’ rights or feelings, lack empathy and remorse for wrongdoings, and have the need to exploit and manipulate others for personal gain.

Nature and nurture play a role in ASPD. The reasons behind the disorder are not fully understood. The current belief is that psychopathy generally comes from genetic factors, such as parts of the brain not developing fully, while sociopathy results from an interruption in personality development by abuse or trauma in childhood. People often think that those with antisocial personality disorders are always criminals and are easy to spot, but many are unaware of the disorder and may never be diagnosed.

Sociopaths have less consistent behavior than psychopaths. Psychopaths are more controlled and charming. Their manipulation is more detached, and they plan ahead. Sociopaths experience anxiety and find rage far harder to control. They may act without thought and, as a result, they may have a harder time blending in. Inconsistencies between their words and their lives may be easier to see.

webmd.com

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:38:10pm

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Will the ski resorts extend their seasons if they have sufficient snow? I don’t know enough about that business to know if they could make enough money to justify extending a couple weeks or a month for more visitors.

Sometimes. But usually no around here. The ski areas lease the land from the Forest Service and they dictate when they can operate, a lot of times they have to close at a set date because of things like elk migration.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:42:48pm

My little great granddaughter Elka celebrating her 1st birthday.

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danarchy  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:42:52pm

re: #136 William Lewis

Flippy switches and blinken lights are fun, but this is the face of getting work done:

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I had a friend in college who claimed one of those that the school was throwing out. For the next decade he lugged it with him from apartment to apartment untill will all refused to help him move it. That thing is not light.

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sagehen  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:43:43pm

re: #135 Cheechako

So, can we survive another infection crisis?

Deadly fungal infection rapidly spreading in U.S. health facilities

did they say “fungus”? Like in The Last of Us?

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:43:43pm

re: #151 The Pie Overlord!

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:49:54pm

re: #151 The Pie Overlord!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 6:52:32pm

Baby steps in Tennessee.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:00:05pm

re: #113 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

To be even more blunt: I will be sad when LGF goes away. This has been my primary online commenting outlet since 2007 (replacing among other things dpreview.)

Perhaps it can be set up as a not-for-profit perpetual trust. Or maybe a church. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:01:22pm

re: #117 William Lewis

My new toy arrived

I don’t see any red LEDs. /s

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:03:35pm

Hi people. So glad to be home. I happened to hit a deluge of rain on the 101. Visibility dropped to way too little, and a couple of cars hit fast-lane ponds really hard in front of me. So two bowls of California cannabis and a Mai Tai courtesy of my roommate. From stressed to blessed so to speak.

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jeffreyw  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:16:10pm

YouTube

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:17:47pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:20:50pm

re: #133 Crush White Nationalism

They don’t all look that nice.

It was the Seventies. Everything was avocado green or burnt orange.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:22:33pm

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It was the Seventies. Everything was avocado green or burnt orange.

It was a horrifying time. Everyone was colorblind from excessive cocaine use.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:23:33pm

Adobe keeps rolling out new AI tools. The text to image generator Firefly is now taking applications for beat use.

Here’s an image one of their users posted to the Firefly discord:

AI generated chocolate dessert

No copyright material was used in the training so any lawsuits about other AI won’t affect Firefly.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:24:40pm

re: #164 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Notice the fork tine problem on the right. These AI tools always have problems with appendages, even for dinnerware.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:29:40pm

The end of hiring artists for commercial work is near:

AI generated indoor luxury living room
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:30:00pm

re: #151 The Pie Overlord!

My little great granddaughter Elka celebrating her 1st birthday.

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jeffreyw  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:31:03pm

YouTube

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Captain Ron  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:33:31pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:35:33pm

re: #169 Captain Ron

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:35:59pm
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Moe Avattar  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:36:40pm

re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Gang Of Four - Armalite Rifle - 1978

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:41:38pm

re: #169 Captain Ron

I have an aunt and two cousins that live in Missouri. My mother and her sister have not been on speaking terms for years. My aunt “unfriended” me on FB the day Roe was overturned because I had the temerity to say that “pro-life” people were evil, she parted ways with me thus:

If you think I’m evil, so be it.

My aunt is a staunch Roman Catholic. My mother–her sister–is an atheist. Families are fucking weird.

My cousins are more enlightened than their mother. One’s a librarian in Springfield. And the other is a graphic artist in Kansas City.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:48:03pm

re: #170 Crush White Nationalism

Moran weighs in on that thread (actually a lot of them are).

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KingKenrod  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:49:02pm

re: #123 Charles Johnson

Behold the majesty of the PDP-11.

[Embedded content]

arstechnica.com

I like that unlabeled white switch. What does it do? Push it and find out.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:51:02pm

Ohtani Ks teammate Mike Trout as Japan defeats the USA in WBC 3-2

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 7:54:22pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:05:50pm
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Captain Ron  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:06:01pm

One of these anti-pornography bills was passed into law in 2021 in Utah but cannot go into effect unless five additional states pass similar laws — a provision included to prevent Big Tech companies from isolating the state after passing the law. This year, Florida, South Carolina, Maryland, Tennessee, Iowa, Idaho, Texas and Montana lawmakers are all considering versions of the bill, with Montana and Idaho’s versions being furthest along in the process.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:13:48pm

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:19:05pm
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retired cynic  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:20:52pm

re: #181 Captain Ron

no no no no nonononononono

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:23:51pm

re: #181 Captain Ron

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:27:27pm

uhhh…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:35:15pm

re: #184 teleskiguy

It’s that time of year, end of winter, beginning of spring, and if we have a large storm at this time there are on occasion tornados.

Rare, though.

Our first major rain band just went through - we’ve had about half an inch of rain over the last hour or so, a lot for us.

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:38:31pm

Would be nice if this abundance of moisture in the U.S. West occurred every winter for like, six years. That would put a dent in the drought.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:39:58pm

re: #181 Captain Ron

Given it’s Australia, I would not be surprised to learn these spiders can actually trap humans, enclosing them in her web, only to devour them by slowly dissolving them with poisons injected with her enormous fangs.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:42:14pm

Well, it seems the wind is dying down. For a while there, it felt like my building was going to blow off its foundations. We’re getting a break in the rain, too. Quiet is bliss.

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Nojay UK  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:46:04pm

re: #187 sizzzzlerz

Given it’s Australia, I would not be surprised to learn these spiders can actually trap humans, enclosing them in her web, only to devour them by slowly dissolving them with poisons injected with her enormous fangs.

They can probably swim the Pacific, wash up on a California beach and march inland. Anything to get away from the REALLY dangerous Aussie spiders.

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Captain Ron  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:53:27pm

re: #185 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s been a long steady light rain all day here with lots of wind in the afternoon and night.

30.80” for 177% of annual rain.

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:54:39pm

re: #181 Captain Ron

The spider Peter Jackson used was just a live one imported from Australia.

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retired cynic  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:55:55pm

re: #191 Belafon

And Shelob was just a smaller child of Ungoliant.

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SerialUpDinger  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:55:58pm

re: #184 teleskiguy

that is my neighborhood. We have no basement to hide in. Might be cool if it actually gets close! Maybe not that close!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:58:23pm

re: #193 SerialUpDinger

that is my neighborhood. We have no basement to hide in. Might be cool if it actually gets close! Maybe not that close!

Stay safe. You know the rules: Near an inside structure-bearing wall, underneath a heavy piece of furniture, into a bathtub and pull something heavy over like a mattress.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:59:18pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 8:59:26pm

re: #193 SerialUpDinger

that is my neighborhood. We have no basement to hide in. Might be cool if it actually gets close! Maybe not that close!

Giphy

RIP Bill Paxton &. Phillip Seymour Hoffman

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:00:05pm

re: #183 teleskiguy

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I’m not sure I’m going to care for flies in the ice cream, though.

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:01:15pm

re: #197 Belafon

I’m not sure I’m going to care for flies in the ice cream, though.

Dragonfly Ripple for the Frog.

Yucchha!

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:03:12pm

A “substantiative and candid exchange of views” is diplomatese for Xi likely telling Putin, “Good luck, pal…you’re gonna need it and don’t come looking to Beijing to pull your nuts out of the fire.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:04:31pm
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Mattand  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:07:10pm

re: #187 sizzzzlerz

Given it’s Australia, I would not be surprised to learn these spiders can actually trap humans, enclosing them in her web, only to devour them by slowly dissolving them with poisons injected with her enormous fangs.

See also: Green, Marjorie Taylor.

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:07:23pm

Isn’t Elmu supposed to shut down the free Twitter API any day now?

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:09:09pm

Now’s that some passive voice.

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:09:47pm
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Belafon  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:11:08pm

My covid test tonight was negative.

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:11:55pm

re: #203 The Ghost of a Flea

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:12:51pm

re: #199 Dr Lizardo

Russia’s UN Ambassador becomes the head of the rotating chair of the Security Council in April. That ain’t good.

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:13:23pm

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Libertarian Party exists to take away the liberty of anyone not white, male and Christian.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:15:44pm

So copy.ai is touting it’s new Chat capability saying it is good for marketing.

I asked

generate a description of the blog littlegreenfootballs.com

It answered:

Certainly! Little Green Footballs is a blog that covers a range of topics including politics, music, environment, and more. The blog was founded by Charles Johnson in 2001 and has since become a popular source for news and commentary. The blog features articles, podcasts, and videos, and is known for its progressive and liberal-leaning perspective. Little Green Footballs has a strong following and is often cited in other media outlets.

Kind of generic. I think it copied it from somewhere but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

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William Lewis  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:21:30pm

re: #208 Florida Panhandler

The Libertarian Party exists to take away the liberty of anyone not white, male and Christian.

and rich. They hate the poor more than even calvinists.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:41:59pm

A harmless drag show? Not possible’: WT President denounces drag shows on campus (one hour ago)

Canyon, Texas (KFDA) - In an email sent to current students, faculty and staff at West Texas A&M University, President Walter Wendler announced that a planned drag show will not take place on the University’s campus.

The email began with the subject line “A Harmless Drag Show? No Such Thing.”

(more, includes E-mail)

He tried to couch it in terms of misogyny (drag shows are demeaning to women).

The show is scheduled for March 31, and is a fundraiser for the Trevor Project.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:50:02pm
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Sherlock Hound  Mar 21, 2023 • 9:51:30pm

re: #175 KingKenrod

I like that unlabeled white switch. What does it do? Push it and find out.

If I’m not mistaken, it’s a lamp test in the real computer. That particular device in the photo is a small-scale replica of the real computer, driven by a Raspberry Pi. There are two other models, simulating a PDP-8 and a PDP-10.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 21, 2023 • 10:05:23pm
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William Lewis  Mar 21, 2023 • 10:30:19pm

re: #214 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

This make me think of a recent thing…

My son saw the AK chest rig I own to go along with my Zastavia AK. He’s no gun nut but he’s smart enough to say, “WTF, Dad?” I’m like I have it for if it comes down to that, even though I pray to what I barely still believe in that it’ll never be needed. No chest plate BS - which he also noticed - because that’s only for either in platoon fire teams or suicide.

Hopefully it’ll never be anything more than a Halloween costume…

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teleskiguy  Mar 21, 2023 • 10:35:03pm

Like A Ship (Niles City Dub)

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Targetpractice  Mar 21, 2023 • 10:35:24pm

re: #215 William Lewis

This make me think of a recent thing…

My son saw the AK chest rig I own to go along with my Zastavia AK. He’s no gun nut but he’s smart enough to say, “WTF, Dad?” I’m like I have it for if it comes down to that, even though I pray to what I barely still believe in that it’ll never be needed. No chest plate BS - which he also noticed - because that’s only for either in platoon fire teams or suicide.

Hopefully it’ll never be anything more than a Halloween costume…

Yeah, always roll my eyes when some Meal Team 6 wannabe decks himself out in “tactical” gear and enough ammo to storm Trump Tower…but says he needs his assault rifle for “home defense.”

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A Cranky One  Mar 21, 2023 • 10:50:54pm

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Mar 21, 2023 • 11:00:21pm

re: #218 A Cranky One

Darth Shitter?

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Targetpractice  Mar 21, 2023 • 11:05:17pm

re: #218 A Cranky One

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“I find your lack of fiber disturbing.”

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Captain Ron  Mar 21, 2023 • 11:13:07pm

That low pressure is hanging around just spinning more rain until 7 AM. Here’s the 5 AM predicted position. Just light steady rain, about 28 hours worth when it stops.

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piratedan  Mar 21, 2023 • 11:25:31pm

re: #221 Captain Ron

replenish those acquifers!

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Captain Ron  Mar 21, 2023 • 11:40:34pm

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 11:41:33pm

Getting back to dpreview: what pops into mind is this simple question: if Amazon did not want it anymore why didn’t they sell it?

Now, granted, hobbyist media is not greatly valuable, but dpreview has a huge back-catalog of product information and reviews.

Certainly some media conglomerate would pay something for the intellectual property.

But Amazon is just shuttering it.

My suspicion is that this is just more evidence of corporate America trying to erase memory.

Sort of like how Youtube no longer allows you to sort videos so you can see the oldest first.

In the case of Youtube it has been suggested that they are doing this because they want to hide the past from potential advertisers.

In the case of Amazon I suspect they just don’t want independent, third party evaluation of items from companies which use Amazon to push a lot of product.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 11:42:34pm

re: #223 Captain Ron

The next drought monitor will show San Diego and Orange counties as no longer “abnormally dry”, for sure.

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Captain Ron  Mar 21, 2023 • 11:43:58pm

re: #225 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The next drought monitor will show San Diego and Orange counties as no longer “abnormally dry”, for sure.

We lost that designation since the last time I saw the map.

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Captain Ron  Mar 21, 2023 • 11:55:54pm

Why can’t Windows make the desktop look normal in HDR mode? The movie in the Netflix App window looks great but the desktop looks like Ass.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 21, 2023 • 11:56:41pm

Note the announcement video on Youtube does not give a reason:

The end of DPReview

..

I notice they have 411k subscribers, which is a decent amount.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 12:08:53am

re: #221 Captain Ron

That low pressure is hanging around just spinning more rain until 7 AM. Here’s the 5 AM predicted position. Just light steady rain, about 28 hours worth when it stops.

The weather radio tonight says starting Wednesday we will be getting about an inch of snow in the day and another inch overnight every day through Friday night. Highs around fifty, lows around twenty.

I love the “snow and warm” season here.
/s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 12:13:58am

Oh my, I should quit reading r/ReligiousFruitcake and go back to watching the television show “Extraordinary.” (NSFW, available on Hulu)

What? (r/ReligiousFruitcake, way NSFW and insulting to women)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 12:19:24am

re: #225 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The next drought monitor will show San Diego and Orange counties as no longer “abnormally dry”, for sure.

We’re in extreme drought in my county.
droughtmonitor.unl.edu

The Google Doodle today is Marcel Marceu’s 100th birthday.

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Captain Ron  Mar 22, 2023 • 12:23:18am

That’s one hell of a snowpack, the reservoirs that collect it will have to let lots of water out to make room for it all.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 1:24:12am

re: #3 GlutenFreeJesus

Isn’t protesting at residences illegal in Florida now?

I suppose it’s okay as long as the owner doesn’t mind.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 1:26:08am

re: #10 jaunte

A Texas megachurch youth pastor, who raped fourteen girls, has been released from prison, after serving only 25 months behind bars.

What is the penalty for performing in drag in front of children?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 1:30:29am

re: #52 GlutenFreeJesus

Look for minorities in the crowd.

At least they are getting paid for being there.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 1:32:06am

re: #59 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I did that in Germany in 2010 or so. Missed the small “Do Not Enter” signs and went into a pedestrian-only area in a small town…

Don’t expect a lot of Americans to understand the concept of a pedestrian-only area unless it the inside of a shopping mall.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 1:47:35am

re: #139 Belafon

The quote was from Trump, not from any official.

which is why we should give it all the credence it merits

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 1:48:58am

re: #166 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The end of hiring artists for commercial work is near:

for scenes like this interior decorator mockup where no human is directly involved or portrayed, AI does a good enough job

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 1:55:50am

re: #210 William Lewis

and rich. They hate the poor more than even calvinists.

liberty is another commodity to be bought and sold on the unregulated free market

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 1:56:40am

I have caught up with the thread and now return you to your regularly scheduled postings

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Amory Blaine  Mar 22, 2023 • 2:05:19am

We have Florida man and the world has American man.

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TarHellion  Mar 22, 2023 • 2:12:56am

The downhill 30-footer posed some risk, but the birbie try rattled into the cup. Looks like rain and low 50s today before the big warmup Thursday and Friday. Happy Hump Day!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 2:48:36am

Only to be expected after Utah passed their “ban library books” law (curiously parents are only going after depictions of minorities or LGBT themes, huh)

Somebody wants the Bible removed from Davis County school libraries (Yahoo!, March 20, 2023)

Someone wants the Bible removed from libraries in the Davis School District.

On Dec. 11, 2022, a challenge was filed with district officials asking that the Bible be pulled from the shelves of the district’s schools.

The school district doesn’t reveal who challenges books, nor does it ask why.

Asked if it was a serious attempt to have the Bible removed from school libraries or if it was a political statement, Christopher Williams, Davis School District’s director of communication, said they treat all challenges the same.

“The district doesn’t judge one challenge versus another,” he said in an email response. “We view it as part of the work we do.”

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sagehen  Mar 22, 2023 • 2:55:02am

re: #224 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

In the case of Amazon I suspect they just don’t want independent, third party evaluation of items from companies which use Amazon to push a lot of product.

what makes data valuable is if no one else has it.

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steve_davis  Mar 22, 2023 • 3:28:41am

re: #133 Crush White Nationalism

They don’t all look that nice.

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lol! the vending key slot so that you can empty the basket full of quarters when it closes down for the night.

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steve_davis  Mar 22, 2023 • 3:33:10am

re: #114 Charles Johnson

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it’s because they’re dying, and when things die, they have a tendency to become completely irrational in their death throes. See the Russian Empire, for example, or white evangelicism, neither of which were all that rational to begin with.

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steve_davis  Mar 22, 2023 • 3:39:43am

re: #165 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Notice the fork tine problem on the right. These AI tools always have problems with appendages, even for dinnerware.

it’s because they know how they plan to eat us when that time comes, and it’s with neither forks nor appendages, so they just don’t care!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 22, 2023 • 3:44:38am

The 1960s were groovy:

Drum Song - Jackie Mittoo & The Soul Vendors (Muzik City Blank 1967)


..

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steve_davis  Mar 22, 2023 • 3:45:10am

re: #173 teleskiguy

I have an aunt and two cousins that live in Missouri. My mother and her sister have not been on speaking terms for years. My aunt “unfriended” me on FB the day Roe was overturned because I had the temerity to say that “pro-life” people were evil, she parted ways with me thus:

My aunt is a staunch Roman Catholic. My mother–her sister–is an atheist. Families are fucking weird.

My cousins are more enlightened than their mother. One’s a librarian in Springfield. And the other is a graphic artist in Kansas City.

yes, everybody in my family is liberal, some probably what would be considered ultra, and yet I have the one sister who married into a kind of redneck enclave and has gone through stockholm syndrome as a result. We still love her. We just do not talk politics under any circumstance.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 22, 2023 • 3:52:05am

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Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor - Ella van Poucke & Radio Filharmonisch Orkest - Live concert HD



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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 3:56:59am

So we were raised Byzantine Rite Roman Catholic, an odd offspring found in parts of the old Hapsburg Empire in which the Orthodox Catholics were allowed to continue to use Old Church Slavonic rites as long as they recognized the Pope.

In any case, when my middle sister married a Lutheran, she got a long letter from my oldest sister about abandoning the True Faith.

Oldest sister later went on to become a Mormon.

My older Brother was going to an Episcopalian church until recently, but as I understand, he and Sister-in-Law switched to another church as they found it all to woke for their convictions.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 4:22:09am

re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So we were raised Byzantine Rite Roman Catholic, an odd offspring found in parts of the old Hapsburg Empire in which the Orthodox Catholics were allowed to continue to use Old Church Slavonic rites as long as they recognized the Pope.

In any case, when my middle sister married a Lutheran, she got a long letter from my oldest sister about abandoning the True Faith.

Oldest sister later went on to become a Mormon.

My older Brother was going to an Episcopalian church, but as I understand, they switched to another church as they found it all to woke for their convictions.

My father’s family were all Polish Roman Catholic, though my father left that faith. My mother’s family is all Lutherans who go to United Methodist churches because there are no Lutheran churches in their area.

My sister is a member of the Metropolitan Community Church, and when she lived in California was a deaconess of her church.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 4:30:36am

re: #252 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I will consider rejoining the Catholic Church once the College of Cardinals and Cardinelles has installed the first Popess.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 22, 2023 • 4:36:52am

Well, that was an interesting start.

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steve_davis  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:07:51am

re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So we were raised Byzantine Rite Roman Catholic, an odd offspring found in parts of the old Hapsburg Empire in which the Orthodox Catholics were allowed to continue to use Old Church Slavonic rites as long as they recognized the Pope.

In any case, when my middle sister married a Lutheran, she got a long letter from my oldest sister about abandoning the True Faith.

Oldest sister later went on to become a Mormon.

My older Brother was going to an Episcopalian church until recently, but as I understand, he and Sister-in-Law switched to another church as they found it all to woke for their convictions.

an Episcopal church. We still burn people at the stake who use the wrong forms for adjective and noun. It’s the last capital crime left on the Federation books.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:09:17am

Here’s what they mean by ‘Freedom’: Event promotes bill to jail docs who use vaccines | Opinion (Bryan Clark, Idaho Statesman, March 20, 2023)

That would be any vaccine using mRNA technology (meaning Covid-19 vaccines).

“I thought we believed in a patient-doctor relationship. So why is the government stepping in and telling these doctors that they can’t do that (administer drugs they believe are effective) to their patients?” asked Sen. Tammy Nichols at the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s “Capitol Clarity” event on Thursday.

That’s a decent argument. It just sounds a little strange coming from the mouth of a lawmaker who is in the midst of promoting a bill that would jail doctors, nurses and pharmacists who administer most brands of COVID-19 vaccines.

But Nichols was talking about ivermectin, an anti-parasite medication that has repeatedly shown no efficacy in treating COVID-19, not vaccines, which have demonstrated a high degree of efficacy in preventing severe disease and death.

Along with cosponsor Rep. Judy Boyle, R-Midvale, Nichols was promoting House Bill 307. The bill and its predecessor have both been printed by the House Health and Welfare Committee, but neither has been granted a hearing. The purpose of the Freedom Foundation’s Capitol Clarity event was to try to get supporters to contact their lawmakers and get it moving.

With the bill, Nichols and Boyle are seeking to place the government — the police specifically — right in the middle of the doctor-patient relationship. The bill would make it a misdemeanor to administer vaccines that use mRNA technology, like the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, punishable by up to a year in jail.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:09:19am

These are dead-enders, or hired by the ultra-right to promote Japan’s return as a militaristic power. The last two times I was there you could see large trucks circling central Tokyo with pro-Trump, pro-Abe, and pro-Emperor slogans and pictures. The comments are hilarious. They actually think this is a majority view. It is not.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:10:14am

re: #255 steve_davis

an Episcopal church. We still burn people at the stake who use the wrong forms for adjective and noun. It’s the last capital crime left on the Federation books.

Do you also burn people who pronounce it Epi-SCOPE-al?

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dharmamark  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:19:08am

re: #173 teleskiguy

My sister and parents live in Springfield. She’ll be there until they pass… She hates what it’s becoming.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:27:43am

re: #259 dharmamark

My sister and parents live in Springfield. She’ll be there until they pass… She hates what it’s becoming.

I find it strange that my state is the potential source of a neo-Enlightenment and neo-Renaissance for the High Plains. That should scare everyone.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:30:28am

re: #257 Barefoot Grin

These are dead-enders, or hired by the ultra-right to promote Japan’s return as a militaristic power. The last two times I was there you could see large trucks circling central Tokyo with pro-Trump, pro-Abe, and pro-Emperor slogans and pictures. The comments are hilarious. They actually think this is a majority view. It is not.

The Trump grift goes international. (MAGA hats? Really? Trump campaign flags, mixed with USA and Imperial Rising Sun flags? That’s a whole lot of confusion there. And who was the dipweed in the Trump-head costume?)

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Dave In Austin  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:39:10am

97 and driving……

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:39:48am
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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:39:55am
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Belafon  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:40:33am

re: #262 Dave In Austin

97 and driving……

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Jay C  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:41:13am

re: #262 Dave In Austin

97 and driving……

Not for much longer, I’m guessing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:41:43am

Saudi Arabia announced that Ramadan begins on April 23, which is the same day as International Atheist Day.

For Ramadan the cycle of fasting and prayer begins for Muslims. For Atheist Day, atheists will display (or put in the palm of their hand or other hidden spot which can be displayed) a green circle to show a person it is safe to be with them or speak to them. Green circles will also appear in social media avatars.

The origins of Atheist Day can be traced back to a spoof story that was published on the internet in 2003. Atheist Day was originally about a fictional case of an Atheist who had decided to sue the government. The reason for the fictional lawsuit was a simple one—unlike all the major religions, there was no day for Atheists, to which the judge said that April 1st (i.e. April Fool’s Day) was their holiday. While this case was just a hoax, the story spread quickly and was actually accepted as fact [by Christians].

daysoftheyear.com

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Nojay UK  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:42:14am

re: #257 Barefoot Grin

These are dead-enders, or hired by the ultra-right to promote Japan’s return as a militaristic power. The last two times I was there you could see large trucks circling central Tokyo with pro-Trump, pro-Abe, and pro-Emperor slogans and pictures.

I was in Tokyo a few years back on Constitution Day. The back streets around Ueno were lined with police riot buses (armoured bumpers, grills over the windows etc.) and a lot of no-more-mister-nice-guy police patrolling rather than the usual one or two uniformed types you see standing outside the kobans or going around issuing bicycle parking tickets. I presume they were prepared for the right-wing nutters getting out of hand and intending to stomp hard if push came to shove.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:42:18am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:43:43am

re: #261 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Trump grift goes international. (MAGA hats? Really? Trump campaign flags, mixed with USA and Imperial Rising Sun flags? That’s a whole lot of confusion there. And who was the dipweed in the Trump-head costume?)

The appeal is universal: loud, boorish, seen as iconoclast outsider defending the “common man” against the perceived establishment.

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Thanos  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:45:53am

Just a reminder “Luther” is leaving Hulu in a few days, last chance to binge or rebinge.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:53:15am

re: #263 Belafon

Representative Tony Tinderholt (R) is the sponsor. It has no co-sponsors.

The bill’s text, prohibiting nearly all genital surgery of any kind, (except circumcision). Interestingly it almost correctly defines gender identity, which it bans if it doesn’t agree with their Christian view of gender.

HB 4754—Relating to health benefit plan coverage for and prohibitions on gender transitioning procedures and treatments provided to certain individuals; creating a criminal offense. (Texas Legislature Website. Bill filed March 10, 2023)

The bill uses the same formula as their anti-abortion law in that anyone can sue on behalf of the state guardians of children, physicians, nurses, hospitals, or pharmacies, and be paid out if they win.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:56:26am

LOL

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:57:36am

re: #259 dharmamark

My sister and parents live in Springfield. She’ll be there until they pass… She hates what it’s becoming.

I blame Mayor Quimby.

/

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 5:58:34am

re: #272 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

why the exemption for circumcision?

(rhetorical question, as this bill is clearly all about transphobia)

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Teukka  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:01:22am

re: #184 teleskiguy

uhhh…

Is it just me, or is the location waaaayyy off?

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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:01:40am

re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s what happens when you jump the monorail.

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sagehen  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:04:01am

re: #271 Thanos

Just a reminder “Luther” is leaving Hulu in a few days, last chance to binge or rebinge.

I love Idris Elba, I love Ruth Wilson, but Luther is just too violent and creepy for me. (and that’s coming from someone who loved Sons of Anarchy and the first season of True Detective, as well as Walking Dead and The Last of Us, so my violence and creepy threshold is pretty high).

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JC1  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:05:55am

re: #224 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Getting back to dpreview: what pops into mind is this simple question: if Amazon did not want it anymore why didn’t they sell it?

Now, granted, hobbyist media is not greatly valuable, but dpreview has a huge back-catalog of product information and reviews.

Certainly some media conglomerate would pay something for the intellectual property.

But Amazon is just shuttering it.

My suspicion is that this is just more evidence of corporate America trying to erase memory.

Sort of like how Youtube no longer allows you to sort videos so you can see the oldest first.

In the case of Youtube it has been suggested that they are doing this because they want to hide the past from potential advertisers.

In the case of Amazon I suspect they just don’t want independent, third party evaluation of items from companies which use Amazon to push a lot of product.

Cellphone cameras killed the standalone camera. not sure how much it costs to keep the site going, but it’s probably a money loser.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:06:45am

(video, 2:48, Voice of America)

Ukrainian Refugees in Israel Stuck in Legal Limbo

TL;DR, Israel does not recognise Ukrainians as refugees unless they are Jewish. Non-Jewish refugees are granted tourist visas, which does not allow them to work or receive benefits.

Non-recognised refugees are also exploited by unscrupulous businesses for employment (much the same as the USA).

Legally-recognised Ukrainian refugees and many Israeli citizens are trying to help out with a refugee centre in Haifa, while the government does little.

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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:08:37am

re: #232 Captain Ron

All that snowpack has to melt slowly - if you get rains on top of that snow, you’ll get massive runoff that can result in major flooding even with the dam systems in place, and get into an Oroville Dam situation, where the spillways aren’t able to handle the flows and major damage can occur.

Given the unpredictable nature of the weather and warmer than normal temps we’ve been seeing overall, it’s a very risky proposition.

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Thanos  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:11:04am

re: #278 sagehen

I love Idris Elba, I love Ruth Wilson, but Luther is just too violent and creepy for me. (and that’s coming from someone who loved Sons of Anarchy and the first season of True Detective, as well as Walking Dead and The Last of Us, so my violence and creepy threshold is pretty high).

It really is very dark, but humorous, captivating, and highly convoluted at the same time, it’s not your typical predictable police procedural. There are even a few moments when you have to work suspension of disbelief hard to make it work.

In the US the Grue is laid out on the ME’s table and it’s how we get our vicarious horror, in Luther we viddy bits of shocking Malenky Ultraviolence throughout.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:11:53am

re: #279 JC1

Cellphone cameras killed the standalone camera. not sure how much it costs to keep the site going, but it’s probably a money loser.

We own a digital camera and a Polaroid One-Step (for which you can buy film even today).

In other news of Luddite technology, our telephone company reduced our Internet service bill from $130 a month for alleged 10Mbit “high speed” Internet (plus $45 a month rental fee for a modem) to $40 a month for Internet service (they did not drop the modem rental fee).

Telephone service on the other hand has been raised to $52/month. Paper billing now costs $5 per month, and the telephone company wants to charge to accept a cheque for billing. The state is going after them since most people outside cities have no access to such things as cell phone service for billing or electronic payment services through banks.

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Thanos  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:12:43am

re: #281 lawhawk

All that snowpack has to melt slowly - if you get rains on top of that snow, you’ll get massive runoff that can result in major flooding even with the dam systems in place, and get into an Oroville Dam situation, where the spillways aren’t able to handle the flows and major damage can occur.

Given the unpredictable nature of the weather and warmer than normal temps we’ve been seeing overall, it’s a very risky proposition.

There’s a song for that

Youtube Video

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:20:12am

re: #284 Thanos

That one’s probably not too popular in New Orleans.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:21:33am

re: #284 Thanos

We didn’t get a song, but we did get an article with photographs.

The Great Flood of 2011 (Nebraska Life Magazine, May/June, 2012)

TORRENTIAL RAINS in the upper Missouri River Basin in May 2011 stressed all five main stream dams upriver of Yankton’s Gavins Point, leaving the hydroelectric structure that backs up Lewis and Clark Lake as the last line of defense against downstream deluges.

Public outcry and political pressure following major floods in the 1940s led to the creation of the dam network. The dams: Fort Peck near Glasgow, Mont., Garrison in central North Dakota, and Oahe, Big Bend, Fort Randall, and Gavins Point, all in South Dakota, were installed as flood controls as authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944. Other benefits of the project include improved navigation, hydroelectric generation, recreational opportunities and irrigation. There are 15 dams in total on the Missouri, and nearly 100 more on its tributaries. The unforgiving Missouri River, as if offended by the attempted taming of its flows, has been rising up ever since.

Historic floods raged in 1881, 1943 and 1952. Gavins Point Dam was completed in 1957, and the rest of the upstream dams were all finished by the early 1960s. Still, heavy floods took their toll along the Missouri River in Nebraska in 1967, 1978 and 1993, with lesser, more localized floods occurring even more often. From its beginnings in the mountains of Montana, to where it joins the Mississippi north of St. Louis 2,341 miles later, the Missouri River brings life to the river valley. And on occasion, it dramatically changes the valley.

Up and down the Missouri River, the 2011 flooding caused more than $2 billion in damages, including 4,000 flooded homes, and resulted in five deaths. In Nebraska, water flowed across Highway 2 at Nebraska City all summer long. Three miles of Interstate 680 between Omaha and Interstate 29 near Council Bluffs, Iowa, was destroyed. And from Montana to Nebraska, $514 million worth of repairs are being made to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers levees, dams and other floodcontrol [sic] structures. By the time everything is cleaned up in 2012, the total cost to Eppley Airfield will top $22 million.

Eppley Airfield is the official name of Omaha’s commercial airport. Not detailed in the article was all the damage to Offutt Air Force Base, which necessitated moving Air Force aircraft to Lincoln’s public airport for years until all the runways and taxiways could be repaired.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:27:13am

More from Voice of America:

Washington —

Western experts analyzing North Korea’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile tests are watching to see whether Pyongyang will follow up by firing an ICBM into the Pacific Ocean on a flat trajectory more like a real attack on the United States.

Such a test would be intended to demonstrate North Korea’s ability to reach the mainland United States with a nuclear weapon as well as to gauge whether the Biden administration would try to intercept it, the experts told VOA’s Korean service.

North Korea said it launched a Hwasong-17 ICBM on March 16 to “give a stronger warning” to the U.S. and South Korea, saying those nations were escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula with large-scale military drills. The allies were three days into their 11-day Freedom Shield live exercises that Pyongyang views as a rehearsal for an invasion.

The Hwasong-17 was fired into space on a trajectory that sent it to over 6,000 kilometers in altitude and about 1,000 kilometers in distance before it splashed into the waters off North Korea’s eastern coast, according to state media.

(more)

Experts: North Korean Full Range ICBM Test Could Challenge U.S. on Interception (March 21, 2023)

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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:31:27am
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Thanos  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:36:23am

re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg

That one’s probably not too popular in New Orleans.

Or in central valley California, where the levees keep the irrigation canal from flooding the area. E.G. in the Natomas basin there’s a large residential/office park /industrial presence in an area where some places are actually below sea level & three giant pumps keep the area free of water.

IF the levees break near there, the pumps will not be able to keep up. I recall the year I had to develop a flood plan for the Deaf Relay Call center that used to be there. We actually had a rotating shift of call center supervisors driving the levee roads to give us forewarning, but got lucky in that the levee held that year.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:36:24am

Speaking of drought and flood control on the Missouri River, Lake McConaughy (the impoundment of the North Platte River east of me) is up to 50.8% of capacity, up eighteen inches from last week.

Mastodon

Unfortunately for us in the lee of the Rocky Mountains, the rain from all the atmospheric rivers hitting California don’t make it to us. Our rain and snow comes from tropical air pushing north from the Gulf of Mexico, which hasn’t really happened since the blizzard on Christmas Eve. (We still have snow from that here despite many days in the sixties.)

The upcoming week looks promising though with snow every day and night from Wednesday through Sunday (despite temperatures in the fifties, it will snow and even collect on the ground).

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2023 • 6:50:51am

Pence proving he doesnt know shit about soc sec, the natl debt, the law, or govt finance

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:00:11am

re: #291 Dangerman

…Republicans should make it clear that they’re open to compassionate and responsible entitlement reforms down the road.

“In the GOP we believe there are compassionate and responsible ways to push Granny over a cliff!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:01:28am

GOP strategy has always been to

1) cut taxes

thus

2) creating more debt

then

3) use cutting debt as excuse to gut government social and regulatory programs.

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jeffreyw  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:02:24am

Good morning

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:03:15am

re: #291 Dangerman

Pence proving he doesnt know shit about soc sec, the natl debt, the law, or govt finance

Pence: Republicans should make it clear that they’re open to compassionate and responsible entitlement reforms down the road.

We will “compassionately” take the money you paid for old-age retirement all your life and let Wall Street gamble it all away to make the wealthy richer on the backs of everyone else. “Compassionate Conservatism” Electric Boogaloo.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:04:04am

re: #291 Dangerman

Pence proving he doesnt know shit about soc sec, the natl debt, the law, or govt finance

He knows. He is a conservative, therefore he’s lying.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:05:38am

re: #291 Dangerman

Could have just left it at “Pence doesn’t know shit”.

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steve_davis  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:06:34am

re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Do you also burn people who pronounce it Epi-SCOPE-al?

:-) Nah. Burning’s too good for ‘em! We make ‘em volunteer for shifts on library book sale day.

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SerialUpDinger  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:07:27am

re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
/
I thought that was for the active shooter drills……

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:10:25am

Stars & Stripes, March 21, 2023

After 81 years, a Virginia military base sheds its Confederate name

BLACKSTONE, Va. — Pickett.

For as long as anyone here can remember, that is how the sprawling military base neighboring this tidy little town in southern Virginia has been known.

Named for Confederate General George Pickett, it was first established as Camp Pickett when the Army built it as a combat training ground soon after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Then, in 1974, the then nearly 45,000-acre facility was renamed Fort Pickett.

But the Pickett era ends Friday when the name will come down as part of a sweeping congressional order to the Defense Department to remove Confederate names from its installations and assets. Pickett, which has been operated by the Virginia National Guard since 1997, will be renamed Fort Barfoot after Col. Van T. Barfoot, a World War II Medal of Honor recipient who lived in nearby Amelia.

While this part of Virginia is steeped in Confederate history and a statue of a Confederate soldier stands in front of the county courthouse a few miles away, the decision to rename the base wasn’t met with a flurry of protests or upset residents demanding the old name be kept. If anything, the decision has been greeted by many locals with little more than a shrug.

(more)

The article notes the local people don’t care what the base is called, as long as it stays open ($$$).

“We country bumpkins down here didn’t come up with the name,” Billy Coleburn, the owner of the local newspaper, the Courier Record, and a former mayor of the town, said in an interview at his office here last week. “The War Department picked the land and the name and the day of the dedication.”

The Army dedicated Camp Pickett on July 3, 1942, 79 years to the day after Pickett’s costly loss at Gettysburg. A number of his descendants planned to be there for the ceremony, according to coverage in the local paper.

In the first half of the 20th century, naming military installations in the South for Confederate leaders was part of the Lost Cause effort, said Ty Seidule, a U.S. Military Academy historian and retired U.S. Army brigadier general, referencing efforts by leading Southerners to cast the Confederacy as noble and principled rather than a rebellion from the North in an attempt to hold on to slavery. In addition to Fort Pickett, two other Virginia military bases named for Confederates, Fort Lee and Fort A.P. Hill, were ordered by the military to change their names this year.

Photograph: Employees make signs using the “Fort Barfoot” name to replace existing “Fort Pickett” signs on March 6, 2023, at Fort Pickett, Va. (Mike Vrabel/U.S. National Buard)

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:14:39am
Ed Sheeran has alerted fans that his upcoming album, “Subtract,” will overflow with feelings.

In his April cover story interview with Rolling Stone, the British hitmaker details the incidents that contributed to his heightened emotional state last year - the sudden death of his best friend and his wife’s tumor diagnosis among them - and how, at 32, he’s become a domesticated family man.

Sheeran admits to plunging into depression following the February 2022 loss of his closest pal, Jamal Edwards, a music entrepreneur who died of cardiac arrhythmia instigated by cocaine use.

Coupled with the discovery that his then-pregnant wife Cherry Seaborn had developed a tumor that couldn’t be removed until giving birth (she underwent successful surgery after delivering second daughter Jupiter last May) and the death of another friend, Australian cricket star Shane Warne, Sheeran felt himself spiraling.

Ed Sheeran details struggles with depression, drugs, bulimia: ‘I didn’t want to live anymore’ (USA Today)

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Thanos  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:16:36am

Oppression is as Oppression does, yesterday’s chapter:

Russia arrests leading member of Nobel Prize-winning rights group

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:21:23am

Note to self: Don’t take the trash out to the Dumpster when the temperature is below freezing and the wind is howling. Bad combination. I’m really cold.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:21:40am

re: #242 TarHellion

The downhill 30-footer posed some risk, but the birbie try rattled into the cup. Looks like rain and low 50s today before the big warmup Thursday and Friday. Happy Hump Day!

[Embedded content]

Birbie for me too.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 641 3/6

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:22:24am

re: #303 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Note to self: Don’t take the trash out to the Dumpster when the temperature is below freezing and the wind is howling. Bad combination. I’m really cold.

When I’m thinking about taking out the trash, I ask Alexa about the weather that day and the next. I often push it to the next day when it’s warmer.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:23:04am

Newsmax will return to DirecTV despite claims of cancel culture

So much for that “victim of cancel culture” bullshit…

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:24:11am

re: #246 steve_davis

it’s because they’re dying, and when things die, they have a tendency to become completely irrational in their death throes. See the Russian Empire, for example, or white evangelicism, neither of which were all that rational to begin with.

When the Austro-Hungarian Empire was dying, it started a war that killed millions — let’s hope the death throes of the centuries old Russian Empire are not as destructive to the world.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:28:28am
Ketamine Wellness Centers promised a “life-changing” method to treat suicidal ideation, depression and PTSD. But its abrupt closure last week has left mental-health patients in Arizona and eight other states without access to drugs or therapy.

One of the nation’s largest chains of ketamine clinics, which started in Phoenix, ceased operating with no advance notice to patients, deadbolting its offices, posting a note on its website, and sending an email.

The company provided scant advice to patients who are in the middle of drug infusion treatment about how to handle being cut off. It also did not provide any information about how to recover hundreds or thousands of dollars in prepaid costs.

‘Psychedelic wellness’ centers close, leaving ketamine patients in 9 states dry and not high (USA today via MSN)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:29:58am

re: #308 Crush White Nationalism

The company provided scant advice to patients who are in the middle of drug infusion treatment about how to handle being cut off. It also did not provide any information about how to recover hundreds or thousands of dollars in prepaid costs.

sounds dodgy & fishy

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wrenchwench  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:30:27am

The birbie was not in the cards for me. One more made it a borb.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 641 4/6*

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:31:14am

re: #309 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

sounds dodgy & fishy

EXCUSE ME.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:31:36am

re: #304 Hecuba’s daughter

I’m too embarrassed to post mine (x/6)

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Thanos  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:32:31am

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:32:32am

re: #305 Crush White Nationalism

When I’m thinking about taking out the trash, I ask Alexa about the weather that day and the next. I often push it to the next day when it’s warmer.

The trash truck was moving through the village. It only comes twice a month in Winter, so it was now or two more weeks.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:33:52am

re: #293 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

GOP strategy has always been to

1) cut taxes

thus

2) creating more debt

then

3) use cutting debt as excuse to gut government social and regulatory programs.

As many people keep noting, SS and Medicare are not part of the general fund and do not contribute to the debt. They are both holders of the debt because politicians keep borrowing from those funds.

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A Cranky One  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:34:18am

re: #311 Dopamine Fish

EXCUSE ME.

At least it wasn’t this;

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:35:01am

My streak of failed music porn remains unbroken.

#Heardle #391

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spotify.com

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darthstar  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:35:05am

Mastodon

Mastodon

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:35:23am

re: #302 Thanos

Oppression is as Oppression does, yesterday’s chapter:

Russia arrests leading member of Nobel Prize-winning rights group
ft.com

Link seems to be borkened.

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Thanos  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:39:15am

re: #319 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Link seems to be borkened.

Here you go:
ft.com

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:40:04am

The security in NY wasn’t about an indictment, it was about a criminal’s threats when he heard he was going to be indicted.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:40:34am

re: #313 Thanos

The most common type of mass shooting in the US rarely achieves big headlines or coverage, because it’s just another husband/dad slaughtering his family, nothing to see there right?

I recall a Doonesbury strip from decades ago: Uncle Duke is testifying in Congress against gun control. One Senator mentions that domestic violence is the biggest cause of gun deaths, to which Duke replies “Well, that’s just my point, Senator: if you wife were shooting at you, wouldn’t you want to be in a position to return fire?”

(Remember, the GOP is fine with arming children.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:41:15am

re: #318 darthstar

Trump shovelling bulkshyte:

“Prosecutors only attack lawyers when they have no case whatsoever,” the Trump campaign statement said, arguing that an ABC News report and other anonymously sourced stories about the still-sealed decision are based on illegal disclosures. “These leaks are happening because there is no factual or legal basis or substance to any case against President Trump.”

For those in the back: Prosecutors attack lawyers when the prosecutors believe lawyers are covering up crime and have evidence to support the assertion.

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Thanos  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:41:19am

re: #320 Thanos

Here you go:
ft.com

& I fixed it upstairs. Thanks!

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Teukka  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:41:28am

Re: The paradox of tolerance twitter thread I was involved a couple of floors downstairs:

[Sauce #1] [Sauce #2]
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Thanos  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:42:11am

re: #322 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I recall a Doonesbury strip from decades ago: Uncle Duke is testifying in Congress against gun control. One Senator mentions that domestic violence is the biggest cause of gun deaths, to which Duke replies “Well, that’s just my point, Senator: if you wife were shooting at you, wouldn’t you want to be in a position to return fire?”

(Remember, the GOP is fine with arming children.)

I missed that one, thanks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:43:06am

re: #325 Teukka

Re: The paradox of tolerance

Or in terms that they can understand: “It’s like an NDA. Once you admit that the bimbo took your hush money, she no longer has to keep quiet about it!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:45:03am

LOL

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darthstar  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:45:28am

re: #321 Crush White Nationalism

The security in NY wasn’t about an indictment, it was about a criminal’s threats when he heard he was going to be indicted.

We’ve reached the era where US National Security monitors Truth Social the same way they do ISIS telegram channels.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:47:03am

re: #327 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Or in terms that they can understand: “It’s like an NDA. Once you admit that the bimbo took your hush money, she doesn’t have to keep quiet about it!”

Point of order: Ms. Daniels is not a “bimbo.” I could be persuaded that Ms. Trump is, though.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:48:07am

re: #268 Nojay UK

I was in Tokyo a few years back on Constitution Day. The back streets around Ueno were lined with police riot buses (armoured bumpers, grills over the windows etc.) and a lot of no-more-mister-nice-guy police patrolling rather than the usual one or two uniformed types you see standing outside the kobans or going around issuing bicycle parking tickets. I presume they were prepared for the right-wing nutters getting out of hand and intending to stomp hard if push came to shove.

That makes sense. Sometimes they will dress in Imperial Army of Japan uniforms and parade in predominantly Korean neighborhoods.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:49:20am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:51:24am

re: #332 Belafon

what the holy fuck is that shit?

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darthstar  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:55:45am

Mastodon

Holy shit…

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:56:47am

re: #333 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

what the holy fuck is that shit?

I have this same question.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:58:40am

re: #334 darthstar

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Welcome to Alito’s America, where Christians enjoy protected status and don’t have to do anything they don’t want to do.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 7:59:51am

re: #333 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

what the holy fuck is that shit?

You’ve seen on-line the phrase “the left can’t meme?” That’s projection, too.

338
Nerdy Fish  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:00:46am

Want to ignore any law whatsoever? Claim you have a “sincerely held religious belief” that prevents you from obeying that law, and you get a free pass! Want to shoot your neighbor? Want to rape his wife? Want to burn your entire city to the ground in a fit of pique because a gay person once looked at you the wrong way? Go for it! Just claim you did it in Jesus’s name and that your religion doesn’t require you to abide by the rules of civil society, and you, too, can be a de facto anarchist!

339
gocart mozart  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:01:43am
340
Joe Bacon  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:04:22am

re: #336 Dopamine Fish

I think this is more accurate!

Welcome to Alito’s America, where Right Wing Christians enjoy protected status and don’t have to do anything they don’t want to do.

341
Nerdy Fish  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:05:13am

re: #340 Joe Bacon

I think this is more accurate!

True to an extent, but let’s not leave aside that the rest of us Christians get some knock-on privileges as well, even if we don’t abuse them to the extent the right-wing crazies do.

342
darthstar  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:05:31am

Mastodon

343
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:11:23am

re: #334 darthstar

Until 2022, Nebraska had no exemptions for vaccines for school except legitimate medical exemptions (no religious bullshyte).

Unfortunately, as part of the successful effort by billionaire Man-of-the-People Gov. Pete Ricketts, we now have a religious exemption specifically for Covid-19 vaccines signed into law in 2022.

The Unicameral is only a couple senators from becoming a fascist legislature. Democrats have to pick their battles here, and if conservatives want to die from a vaccine-preventable disease because politics or Christianity tells them they should, Democrats aren’t going to stand in their way (in fact, they will stand far away).

Gov. Ricketts Signs Coronavirus Vaccine Exemption Legislation (Nebraska Health and Human Services, February 28, 2022)

Several Democrats in the Unicameral were censured when they said “you’re free to kill your voters.”

344
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:12:59am

re: #335 Eclectic Cyborg

I have this same question.

Religion (conservatism).

345
Joe Bacon  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:13:32am

Oh my Cthulhu the US Army is…WOKE!

Republicans gear up to attack US Military leaders over their ‘woke’ policies

Now that Republicans control the House, they’re gearing up to take on top Pentagon leaders over what they see as the military’s leadership weakening the armed forces by imposing “woke” policies, Politico reported.

rawstory.com

346
Nerdy Fish  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:14:21am

re: #345 Joe Bacon

What “woke” policies, specifically, are “weakening” our military? Oh, right - women shouldn’t be in combat, they should be in the kitchen or in the general’s bunk.

347
A Cranky One  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:14:53am

348
darthstar  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:17:21am

Trump entering the denial phase of his indictment wait…now says the perp walk will be ‘fun’…

349
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:17:41am

re: #345 Joe Bacon

Oh my Cthulhu the US Army is…WOKE!

Republicans gear up to attack US Military leaders over their ‘woke’ policies

Now that Republicans control the House, they’re gearing up to take on top Pentagon leaders over what they see as the military’s leadership weakening the armed forces by imposing “woke” policies, Politico reported.

rawstory.com

“Weakening the Armed Forces.”

Is “woke” in the room with them now? Are the Armed Forces instructing military personnel to be less lethal in their actions on a battlefield or the sea? Does a Howitzer or Naval artillery become less accurate based on gender identity or awareness of racism?

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:17:59am

Got the very rare (nowadays) eagle!

Click to Reveal

Wordle 641 2/6

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:20:07am

re: #339 gocart mozart

352
Joe Bacon  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:20:28am

The mouse flips the bird to Il Duce.

After DeSantis tussle, Disney World will host a major summit on gay rights

rawstory.com

353
darthstar  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:23:25am

Mastodon

354
Teukka  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:23:58am

re: #327 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Or in terms that they can understand: “It’s like an NDA. Once you admit that the bimbo took your hush money, she no longer has to keep quiet about it!”

Damn good. Stolen.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:24:27am

Well, it’s way past my bedtime. It’s been fun. I’ll see you at the barricades, Off to bed with me.

356
The Pie Overlord!  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:28:51am
357
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:28:54am
358
lawhawk  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:31:19am

re: #354 Teukka

Damn good. Stolen.

Trump’s NDAs are as good as his usual business decisions. He gave hush money and made people sign NDAs, and of course everyone knows all the gory/juicy details.

359
The Pie Overlord!  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:33:59am
360
Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:34:38am

re: #357 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

What is the significance of the green circle?

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No Malarkey!  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:35:17am
362
TarHellion  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:36:09am

re: #350 The Pie Overlord!

Congrats! You win all the pies!

363
Joe Bacon  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:36:32am

re: #356 The Pie Overlord!

If this was the late 1930s the Michigan GOP would be all in with Charles Lindbergh and his America Firsters.

364
Teukka  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:37:29am

re: #332 Belafon

WTFITSICE?

365
Dangerman  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:39:00am

re: #327 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Or in terms that they can understand: “It’s like an NDA. Once you admit that the bimbo took your hush money, she no longer has to keep quiet about it!”

or congress… when one side
- no longer plays by the long understood unwritten rules
and
- no longer believes the business of politics is to negotiate agreements of groups with different interests to find a common way forward.
and
- does not market any notion of democratic participatory ‘politics’ at all, but rather authoritarian and dictatorial power, domination, and force of will,

then the other side better wake up

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Captain Ron  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:39:24am
367
jaunte  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:39:42am

re: #332 Belafon

They should have just stayed on the beach.

368
gocart mozart  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:40:56am

[This tweet may have been deleted.]
It was about playing Mashantucket, CT (Foxwoods). The above Tweet was deleted for some reason so I posted my reply here instead.

369
lawhawk  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:42:06am

re: #361 No Malarkey!

The fact that the fucker should be in prison for the rest of his life is proof he’s a loser. He’s just trying to keep the rubes fixated on performative bulkshit instead of the fact that he engaged in a crime spree that continues to this very day by and through his accomplices, coconspirators, and go-betweens in and out of government.

370
No Malarkey!  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:44:53am

I never thought the leopards would eat MY face!

371
Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:47:01am

re: #370 No Malarkey!

“No, you idiot. You’re supposed to punish THEM!”

372
jeffreyw  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:47:26am

374
Hecuba's daughter  Mar 22, 2023 • 8:59:30am

re: #343 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Until 2022, Nebraska had no exemptions for vaccines for school except legitimate medical exemptions (no religious bullshyte).

Unfortunately, as part of the successful effort by billionaire Man-of-the-People Gov. Pete Ricketts, we now have a religious exemption specifically for Covid-19 vaccines signed into law in 2022.

The Unicameral is only a couple senators from becoming a fascist legislature. Democrats have to pick their battles here, and if conservatives want to die from a vaccine-preventable disease because politics or Christianity tells them they should, Democrats aren’t going to stand in their way (in fact, they will stand far away).
…..

Unfortunately they will also kill those who cannot get vaccinated due to legitimate medical exemptions. And those whose immune systems don’t respond successfully to vaccinations.

375
Joe Bacon  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:01:08am

re: #374 Hecuba’s daughter

Unfortunately they will also kill those who cannot get vaccinated due to legitimate medical exemptions. And those whose immune systems don’t respond successfully to vaccinations.

Republicans believe that’s OK because it fits with their survival of the fittest bullshit.

376
Hecuba's daughter  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:02:11am

re: #346 Dopamine Fish

What “woke” policies, specifically, are “weakening” our military? Oh, right - women shouldn’t be in combat, they should be in the kitchen or in the general’s bunk.

Let’s never forget traitors like Cruz were praising the Russian military for not being woke a couple years ago.

377
Nerdy Fish  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:03:28am

re: #376 Hecuba’s daughter

tech.lgbt

378
gwangung  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:04:44am

re: #375 Joe Bacon

Republicans believe that’s OK because it fits with their survival of the fittest bullshit.

Special rights for superior beings, I’d say.

Though they might be surprised who’s “superior”….

379
Nerdy Fish  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:06:43am

re: #377 Dopamine Fish

Seems it didn’t embed. Content: A Mastodon post with a screenshot of Reddit, from a Steam game developer, talking about a game being removed because some of its content “violates local rules or regulations in Russia.” The comment on the post:

honestly, “so gay that it’s illegal in russia” should be used as a selling point

(though I feel the bar for getting banned there might be very low these days)

380
The Pie Overlord!  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:08:53am

This asshole’s entire TL is a toxic cesspool of racist shit and Lost Cause mythology. And anti-vaxxist poison.

381
Crush White Nationalism  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:10:52am

re: #357 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

[Embedded content]

Too culty for me. Understanding that gods are imaginary doesn’t need to involve weird symbolism.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:12:14am

re: #381 Crush White Nationalism

Too culty for me. Understanding that gods are imaginary doesn’t need to involve weird symbolism.

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

383
Belafon  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:16:45am

re: #372 jeffreyw

He obviously hasn’t watched Adventure Time.

384
The Pie Overlord!  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:18:50am

Take me in, tender woman!
Take me in for heaven’s sake!
Take me in, tender woman!
Ssighed the snake.

385
jaunte  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:20:54am
386
darthstar  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:22:52am

Let’s see Putin’s body doubles do something like this…they aren’t stupid…they know they’d get fragged.

Mastodon

387
The Pie Overlord!  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:25:15am
388
Nerdy Fish  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:29:53am

re: #387 The Pie Overlord!

I’m wondering if that was a security thing, given that the Trump-humpers have been increasingly threatening violence on people who are investigating their burnt sienna deity.

389
Dangerman  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:30:11am

re: #353 darthstar

[Embedded content]

you know,….context

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:30:33am

re: #388 Dopamine Fish

I’m wondering if that was a security thing, given that the Trump-humpers have been increasingly threatening violence on people who are investigating their burnt sienna deity.

I think so too, especially after that bomb threat yesterday.

391
Nerdy Fish  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:31:38am

re: #390 Eclectic Cyborg

I think so too, especially after that bomb threat yesterday.

Related: If you have to resort to violence, or threats of violence, on behalf of your cult leader, perhaps you should finally acknowledge you’re in a fucking cult.

392
Eventual Carrion  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:33:04am

re: #242 TarHellion

The downhill 30-footer posed some risk, but the birbie try rattled into the cup. Looks like rain and low 50s today before the big warmup Thursday and Friday. Happy Hump Day!

[Embedded content]

I really tanked it today with a 5/6

Click to Reveal

Wordle 641 5/6

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⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

393
Crush White Nationalism  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:49:34am
Former Florida state Rep. Joseph Harding (R) could be going to prison for a long time after he pled guilty to committing fraud to get $150,000 of COVID-19 relief funds.

Harding is perhaps best known as the author of Florida’s infamous Don’t Say Gay bill, which banned discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in younger grades and restricted them in older grades. LGBTQ+ advocates said that the law would effectively ban discussions of LGBTQ+ people, force teachers into the closet, and cut LGBTQ+ students off from much-needed support outside of their homes. Supporters of the bill said that anyone who opposed it was a pedophile.

Don’t Say Gay bill’s author could go to jail for 35 years after guilty plea (LGBTQ Nation)

394
No Malarkey!  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:53:32am

re: #393 Crush White Nationalism

Don’t Say Gay bill’s author could go to jail for 35 years after guilty plea (LGBTQ Nation)

Because the GOP has no interest in the public good, but is primarily about conning its voters into supporting upward redistribution of the nation’s wealth to GOP mega donors, the GOP naturally attracts grifters and criminals into its ranks.

395
Captain Ron  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:56:02am
396
No Malarkey!  Mar 22, 2023 • 9:56:50am

Uganda has made identifying as LGBTQ a thought crime. Coming to a red state near you.

397
Crush White Nationalism  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:01:28am

re: #395 Captain Ron

[Embedded content]

Millions of stubborn, stupid people who just can’t be told the truth, or they get extremely upset.

398
Joe Bacon  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:01:44am

Crackhead Mike says Machines are the Antichrist…

rawstory.com

‘It’s the Antichrist’: Mike Lindell warns AI will take ‘control’ if voting machines are not destroyed

We’re at this apex in history now,” the pillow executive opined. “If we don’t get rid of these electronic voting machines, if we don’t get rid of the machines and get back to having elections and not selections, we have to elect the people that are going to regulate this artificial intelligence.”

“We’re going have artificial intelligence regardless,” he continued. “But you better have the right people regulating it. You could frame people for anything. You could do anything with that, and we’re going to just be controlled.”

“And you’re right!” Lindell agreed. “It’s like the Antichrist, but that’s why it’s so important what we’re doing right now to get elections back instead of selections because the people you’re going to be regulating something that’s so powerful that something man has never seen.”

399
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:09:58am

Jack Daniels has no sense of humor.

apple.news

Jack Daniel’s tells Supreme Court its brand is harmed by dog toy Bad Spaniels

Jack Daniel’s, the famous Tennessee whiskey company, is trying to stop production and marketing of a chewy dog toy called Bad Spaniels. The toy, shaped and decorated like a Jack Daniel’s bottle, features a spaniel and the name “Bad Spaniels” on the label instead of the iconic Jack Daniel’s name. And instead of promising 40% alcohol by volume, it promises “43% poo by volume, 100% smelly.”

As it argues in its brief: “Jack Daniel’s loves dogs and appreciates a good joke as much as anyone. But Jack Daniel’s likes its customers even more, and doesn’t want them confused or associating its fine whiskey with dog poop.”

VIP’s brief comes back with a terse reply: “Freedom of speech begins with freedom to mock.”

Jack Daniel’s “misses the point” when it equates the Bad Spaniels toy with knock offs like marijuana-laced Oreos marketed as “Stoneos,” says VIP’s lawyer Bennett Evan Cooper. “There is no bottle of dog food being sold. It’s a pretend trademark on a pretend label for a pretend bottle full of pretend content. The entire thing is a parody.”

400
The Pie Overlord!  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:11:04am

Since there will be no indictment today, for an amuse bouche enjoy this video of a sovereign citizen being hauled out of his vehicle at a traffic stop after harassing the officer.

Sovereign Citizen Goes Full Ballistic Karen in Tennessee over a Tag Violation

401
William Lewis  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:12:43am

re: #399 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Jack Daniels has no sense of humor.

apple.news

Just saw an article on this at NPR and was going to post it here. I would hope that the court would rule in favor of VIP Products but with these asshats, who can be sure of anything?

402
No Malarkey!  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:12:53am

re: #399 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Jack Daniels has no sense of humor.

apple.news

Good article here explaining that the real issue is that the 9th Circuit adopted 1st Amendment protections so expansive, they virtually eviscerate trademark law.

403
Thanos  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:14:30am

New From Morgan Wade, she’s at the Troubador tomorrow night if you live in LA environs.

Morgan Wade - The Night (Part 2 - Acoustic) (Official Audio)
rising new country star, friends with Jason Isbell bandmates.

404
Thanos  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:14:59am

here’s the non acoustic part 1

Morgan Wade - The Night (Official Music Video)

405
The Pie Overlord!  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:15:31am
406
Belafon  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:18:50am
407
The Pie Overlord!  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:20:00am
408
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:20:14am

re: #402 No Malarkey!

Good article here explaining that the real issue is that the 9th Circuit adopted 1st Amendment protections so expansive, they virtually eviscerate trademark law.

It’s I’d get it if the doggy chew toy actually looked like a bottle of Jack. It doesn’t. I compared the two together. It’s total parody.

409
No Malarkey!  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:22:02am

re: #408 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’s get it if the doggy chew toy actually looked like a bottle of Jack. It doesn’t. I compared the two together. It’s total parody.

That is a legitimate argument. But that isn’t the standard the 9th Circuit used, which, if allowed to stand, effectively makes trademarks unenforceable.

410
Nerdy Fish  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:23:38am

re: #409 No Malarkey!

That is a legitimate argument. But that isn’t the standard the 9th Circuit used, which, if allowed to stand, effectively makes trademarks unenforceable.

I’m very much in favor of restricting IP rights as much as possible. I come from the Richard Stallman branch of copyleft libertarianism. But that seems overly broad, even to me. Trademarks are valuable to ensure that brands are readily identifiable, part of a “truth in advertising” consumer protection enforcement scheme.

411
No Malarkey!  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:25:54am

re: #410 Dopamine Fish

I’m very much in favor of restricting IP rights as much as possible. I come from the Richard Stallman branch of copyleft libertarianism. But that seems overly broad, even to me. Trademarks are valuable to ensure that brands are readily identifiable, part of a “truth in advertising” consumer protection enforcement scheme.

Exactly the point made in the article I linked to.

412
Dangerman  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:27:37am

re: #315 Colère Tueur de Lapin

As many people keep noting, SS and Medicare are not part of the general fund and do not contribute to the debt. They are both holders of the debt because politicians keep borrowing from those funds.

Now get some interviewer to follow up with that….

413
Dangerman  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:32:54am

re: #397 Crush White Nationalism

Millions of stubborn, stupid people who just can’t be told the truth, or they get extremely upset.

Faint glimmer of hope

there were a couple of bad polls for Fox this week. The first, from Quinnipiac, reports that nearly all Democrats, but also 40% of Republicans, want the network to pay the price for its lies about the 2020 election. The second, commissioned by Variety, says that roughly half of Fox voters are unaware of the Dominion lawsuit, but among the half who are familiar with the story, nearly half trust the network less. That means that overall, about 21% of Fox viewers have a less favorable view of the network than they did before the 2020 election.

414
Dangerman  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:35:34am

re: #399 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Jack Daniels has no sense of humor.

apple.news

If your customers are that confused…..

415
Nerdy Fish  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:37:06am

re: #414 Dangerman

If your customers are that confused…..

It’s Jack Daniel’s, their customers are probably drunk.

416
Eventual Carrion  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:38:02am

re: #356 The Pie Overlord!

Hitler only banned guns for certain people, not for everyone. Sort of like how a white person with a gun gets a pass whereas a person of color with a gun gets shot to death.

417
Eventual Carrion  Mar 22, 2023 • 10:48:29am

re: #415 Dopamine Fish

It’s Jack Daniel’s, their customers are probably drunk.

Hey I resemble that remark


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