Some More News: Who Are the Real “Groomers?”

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In today’s episode, we analyze the accusation that THE LEFT is grooming children by injecting gender ideology into schools and putting disgusting things like rainbows on shirts. We also look at the actual definition of “grooming” and ask ourselves what group in the U.S. appears to fit that definition.

Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Katie Goldin
Hosted by Cody Johnston
Edited by Gregg Meller
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:22 - Is The Existence of LGBTQ People… Grooming?
10:55 - How the Right Defines “Grooming” vs. What Grooming Actually Is
19:13 - LGBTQ People Are Not More Likely To Be Child Abusers, Obviously
22:44 - Who’s Indoctrinating Who?
32:50 - Conservative Institutions Sure Seem To Have Grooming Issues
43:10 - It’s Come To This: We’re Explaining Why Child Marriage Is Bad
45:23 - Sex Education Is Good For Kids
49:43 - Tim Pool – And You Won’t Believe This – Is A Huge Lying Weirdo
54:59 - Conservatives Want To Indoctrinate Into Their Weird Ideology

Sources: docs.google.com

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Thanos  Jul 12, 2023 • 10:57:38am

Let me guess — many of them go to church I bet.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 12, 2023 • 10:59:21am

re: #1 Thanos

Let me guess — many of them go to church I bet.

And a whole bunch of them are Republicans, Libertarians and Conservatives!

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wrenchwench  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:00:41am

Beagle.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:04:31am

07 12 2023 11 45 46

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:08:32am

re: #4 Joe Bacon ✅

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:09:21am

re: #4 Joe Bacon ✅

“It is not the fault of the FBI that Donald Trump surrounded himself with criminals.”

BOOYA!

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jeffreyw  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:09:34am

Mastodon

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:12:13am

re: #2 Joe Bacon ✅

And a whole bunch of them are Republicans, Libertarians and Conservatives!

The old joke is “The difference between Libertarians and Republicans is Libertarians like to smoke dope.” I know so many “Republicans” that smoke weed, I don’t think the joke is valid anymore.

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jaunte  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:18:26am

re: #4 Joe Bacon ✅

“Mr. Wray, is it fair to say that my colleagues who want to defund and dismantle the FBI are elevating the interests of drug cartels, swindlers, child rapists and the Chinese Communist Party above their fellow citizens?”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:25:34am

re: #7 jeffreyw

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That’s far enough to give you a couple of seconds to think about how screwed you are. Not a good way to go, and certainly not a good age to go.

People don’t seem to understand that unnecessary risk can end their lives.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:26:17am

re: #2 Joe Bacon ✅

And a whole bunch of them are Republicans, Libertarians and Conservatives!

Absolutely. They want to get sex out of the schools and the media and back to rich guy vacation homes and the (after-church) Motel 6 where it belongs.

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lawhawk  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:31:17am

More 1/6 judicial outcomes:

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:31:21am

So if a married woman isn’t prepared to have a baby she can say no to her husband?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:31:56am

re: #8 Ace Rothstein

The old joke is “The difference between Libertarians and Republicans is Libertarians like to smoke dope.” I know so many “Republicans” that smoke weed, I don’t think the joke is valid anymore.

It’s not, but we all learned the word “ephebophilia” from Libertarians, so they’re educational at least, while the Republicans are shrieking about demons and banging rocks together.

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jaunte  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:32:08am

re: #13 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

“If they’re not prepared to die of any number of complications, don’t have sex.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:32:21am

The notion is that teaching children of the very existence of gays is dangerous to them. And treating gays as anyting at all normal or acceptable is luring them into a false sense of morality.

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wrenchwench  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:34:04am

re: #15 jaunte

“If they’re not prepared to die of any number of complications, don’t have sex.”

‘If they’re not prepared to bleed to death, don’t have sex.’

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:34:04am

re: #16 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The notion is that teaching children of the very existence of gays is dangerous to them. And treating gays as anyting at all normal or acceptable is luring them into a false sense of morality.

That fascists might not be able to psychologically abuse them and drive them to suicide. Fascists cannot tolerate that.

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jeffreyw  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:36:31am

Mastodon

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jaunte  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:39:12am

Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social

It’s cool that two of the current memes on the right are simultaneously “libs are ignoring the scourge of widespread human trafficking” and “this guy under house arrest for human trafficking in Romania is awesome and based”

I’d hope at some point the contradiction between the shock jock crassness and church lady “think of the children!” prudishness would cause some tension on the right, but they’ve done an amazing job of resolving it so far

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ckkatz  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:39:28am

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jaunte  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:40:21am

@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Orwell comes up a lot in reference to surveillance, censorship, and group hatred, but the most applicable thing from 1984 today is doublethink.
-Trump is the strongest ever and a poor victim
-He hires the best who are all bad
-Sex trafficking is a huge problem and this sex trafficker is great
etc.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:41:47am
The world’s most-powerful AI model has become, well, less powerful. That has industry insiders whispering about what may be a major redesign of the system.

In recent weeks, users of OpenAI’s GPT-4 have been complaining loudly about degraded performance, with some calling the model “lazier” and “dumber” compared to its previous reasoning capabilities and other output.

In comments on Twitter and in OpenAI’s online developer forum, users vented their frustrations with issues such as weakened logic, more erroneous responses, losing track of provided information, trouble following instructions, forgetting to add brackets in basic software code, and only remembering the most recent prompt.

The world’s most-powerful AI model suddenly got ‘lazier’ and ‘dumber.’ A radical redesign of OpenAI’s GPT-4 could be behind the decline in performance. (BI via MSN)

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:43:24am

re: #20 jaunte

Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social

If thinking is not your thing, there’s no tension between conflicting ideas to cause you to change your approach. Authoritarians say they believe whatever they were told to say they believe.

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jaunte  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:43:28am

re: #23 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

AI becomes more human!

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Charles Johnson  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:46:31am

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:46:34am

re: #25 jaunte

AI becomes more human!

There is no AI. It’s just humans having their work remixed by software. Picking the eighth most likely word to continue a sentence based on Internet posts is an interesting trick, but is not the actual AI that people have dreamed of.

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lawhawk  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:46:48am
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wrenchwench  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:47:04am

Happy Amazon Prime day.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:53:02am

re: #29 lawhawk

So how much money did those tax preparer companies put in Comer Pyle’s pocket to get him to ignore that?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:54:25am

Jonah Hill may be at the end of his career.

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jeffreyw  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:54:31am

Mastodon

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 12, 2023 • 11:55:46am

re: #33 jeffreyw

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:01:53pm

re: #23 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The world’s most-powerful AI model suddenly got ‘lazier’ and ‘dumber.’ A radical redesign of OpenAI’s GPT-4 could be behind the decline in performance. (BI via MSN)

A little more about why this is happening, from that article:

They think OpenAI is creating several smaller GPT-4 models that act similarly to the large model but are less expensive to run.

The approach is called a Mixture of Experts, or MOE, according to Zhou. The smaller expert models are each trained on different tasks and subject areas. There could be a mini biologist GPT-4 and one for physics, chemistry, and so on. When a GPT-4 user asks a question, the new system knows which expert model to send that query to. The new system might decide to send a query to two or more of these expert models just in case, and then mash up the results.

“This idea has been around for a while and it’s a natural next step,” Zhou said.

Zhou compared this situation to the “Ship of Theseus” thought experiment where parts of the vessel were swapped out over time, begging the question, at what point does it become a whole new ship?

“OpenAI is taking GPT-4 and turning it into a fleet of smaller ships,” she said. “From my perspective, it’s a new model. Some would say it’s the same.”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:03:46pm

Marge Taylor looks awful these days.

Dog the Bounty Hunter goes on homophobic rant, threatens violence against Dylan Mulvaney (NYDN via MSN)

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:07:32pm

re: #33 jeffreyw

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One time Mom experimented with microwaving Baker’s chocolate, mixing it with coconut, caramel syrup and chopped pecans then pouring the mixture into a graham cracker crust and refrigerating it. It was sort of hard to cut but damn it tasted so good….

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:07:39pm

re: #35 Eclectic Cyborg

Zhou compared this situation to the “Ship of Theseus” thought experiment where parts of the vessel were swapped out over time, begging the question, at what point does it become a whole new ship?

True also of the band Badfinger.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:08:52pm
Ever since Meta launched its competitor to Twitter last week, Elon Musk has been attempting to tear it down, denouncing Threads’ approach to content moderation, threatening to sue for the supposed theft of “trade secrets,” and even challenging Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to a penis-measuring competition.

Some of his employees, however, are thoroughly enjoying the new app.

“I’m going to get fired for this, but I work at Twitter right now and have never really used it. Threads is just better,” a current staffer wrote on Threads last week. “Here’s to a new world!”

“[Not gonna lie] the signup flow was really nice,” another Twitter employee posted, referring to the process by which users register for an account.

The Daily Beast took a random sample of 133 current Twitter employees, identified by their LinkedIn accounts, and found that 31 of them—nearly a quarter—appeared to already be on Threads. Musk said in April that Twitter employed roughly 1,500 people, suggesting that hundreds of its workers may be using its rival.

A portion of those staffers may simply be sniffing out the competition. One Twitter employee threaded that he was “here to learn stuffs,” while another staffer’s sole post read “Test 1.”

‘Just Better’: Even Musk’s Own Twitter Employees Are Using Threads (The Daily Beast)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:15:17pm

re: #39 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Musk starts firing more people in 3…2…1…

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jeffreyw  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:15:33pm

re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅

One time Mom experimented with microwaving Baker’s chocolate, mixing it with coconut, caramel syrup and chopped pecans then pouring the mixture into a graham cracker crust and refrigerating it. It was sort of hard to cut but damn it tasted so good….

Graham Cracker Toffee Bars

whats4dinnersolutions.com

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Thanos  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:17:30pm

re: #21 ckkatz

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:19:23pm

re: #41 jeffreyw

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Mom’s experiment was gooey and oozed all over the dessert plates BUT it was so decadent!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:26:36pm

Mom loved to make Buttermilk Pie

1 ½ cups sugar

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

3 large eggs

1 cup buttermilk

½ cup butter, melted

1 tablespoon loosely packed lemon zest

3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 9 inch Pie Crust

Garnishes: fresh berries, whipped cream, fresh mint

Preheat oven to 350°F. Whisk together first 2 ingredients in a large bowl. Whisk eggs and next 5 ingredients into flour mixture.

Pour into Pie Crust.

Bake at 350°F for 35 to 45 minutes or until almost set, shielding edges with aluminum foil after 15 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack, and cool 1 hour.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:30:13pm

re: #44 Joe Bacon ✅

Ugh, you said five items. I need to read more carefully. The pie crust did not do well in the bowl.

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jaunte  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:32:46pm

Ukraine: Russian general reported killed in attack on Berdyansk hotel

A senior Russian general has been killed in a missile strike in Ukraine, Russian sources have said.

Lt Gen Oleg Tsokov is said to have died in a strike on a hotel housing Russian military commanders in Berdyansk, on Ukraine’s occupied southern coast.

Russia’s defence ministry has not officially confirmed his death. But it was widely announced by Russian war channels on the Telegram messaging app.

TV host Olga Skabeyeva said “absolutely all media” were reporting it.

Lt Gen Tsokov was deputy commander of Russia’s southern military district. Ms Skabeyeva who presents a talk show on the state-run Rossiya-1 channel said he was killed by a UK-supplied Storm Shadow missile.

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lawhawk  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:33:33pm

re: #31 Joe Bacon ✅

I did a quick lookup of H&R Block, and they’re equal opportunity lobbyists (essentially 50/50 split in money going to Dems and GOPers), because they know it takes both sides of the aisle to guarantee that tax return simplification and e-return simplification would not happen because that ends much of the company’s business model.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:33:41pm
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Sherlock Hound  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:34:37pm

re: #264 Thanos

See the other reply upthread, not much they can do. Unlike my previous cataracts they can’t pop out my lenses and insert new ones.

Maybe someday they will create a procedure where they stick a needle in your eye, liquefy your vitreous humor, suck it out, and replace it, but we ain’t there yet by a long shot.

Yes, we are there already. If you have a detached retina, the doctors will do precisely that!

The vitreous shrinks with age. In some people, it tears the retina. The surgeon grinds away the vitreous from the inside and replaces it with air. Over the course of a month or so, the eye regenerates fluid to replace the vitreous.

The only reason doctors don’t do this for non-retinal detachments is due to the perceived risk, but I have heard of people with massive floaters having this done.

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jaunte  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:34:55pm

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:36:18pm

re: #42 Thanos

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No Malarkey!  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:36:20pm

re: #12 lawhawk

More 1/6 judicial outcomes:

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If I recall correctly, this is the first acquittal on all charges of an alleged J6 insurrectionist.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:39:06pm

re: #12 lawhawk

More 1/6 judicial outcomes:

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Mr. Beeks, I loved him in Trading Places.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:41:11pm
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sizzzzlerz  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:42:14pm

re: #7 jeffreyw

Free-solo climber dies in 500-foot fall in Rocky Mountain National Park

When Alex Honnold free-soloed El Cap in Yosemite several years ago, I expected that there would start to be reports of other climbers dying while attempting this same feat, albeit on different mountains. Alex spent a year studying the rock, planning his every move. Even so, it was an incredibly dangerous thing to do. I wonder if other climbers, like this woman, did the same preparation as Alex.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:42:31pm

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Thanos  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:46:15pm

re: #49 Sherlock Hound

Yes, we are there already. If you have a detached retina, the doctors will do precisely that!

The vitreous shrinks with age. In some people, it tears the retina. The surgeon grinds away the vitreous from the inside and replaces it with air. Over the course of a month or so, the eye regenerates fluid to replace the vitreous.

The only reason doctors don’t do this for non-retinal detachments is due to the perceived risk, but I have heard of people with massive floaters having this done.

That’s what I like about coming here, you always learn new things.

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jeffreyw  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:47:04pm

re: #44 Joe Bacon ✅

Pac Man Pie!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:52:42pm

re: #45 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Ugh, you said five items. I need to read more carefully. The pie crust did not do well in the bowl.

nooooooooooooooooooo! Don’t put the pie crust in the bowl!!!!!!!!!!

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 12, 2023 • 12:58:04pm
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Florida Panhandler  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:03:10pm

re: #52 No Malarkey!

If I recall correctly, this is the first acquittal on all charges of an alleged J6 insurrectionist.

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100% he will be back in the fold when they try it again.

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Sinistershade  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:05:23pm

re: #50 jaunte

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Monty Python Flying Sheep Sketch

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:05:47pm

re: #48 Backwoods Sleuth

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austin_blue  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:05:48pm

re: #239 Nerdy Fish

Again, I was looking at it from a believer’s point of view. I understand that faith is supposed to be everything for a Christian, but I ask you: What good is “faith” if it’s also accompanied by “a complete inability to do the job”? Churches place way too much emphasis on Christians being willing to serve in places that are way outside their lane, just for the sake of serving. (It never works well, and those volunteers eventually get burned out and stop serving, or leave the church altogether, leaving the church in an even worse position than it was in before.) The same principle is applied to public and/or professional service, encouraging people to do things they’re entirely unqualified for, purely because having “people of faith” is more important than “people of competence.” I am firmly of the belief that if God truly calls you to do a thing, it will be a thing He has prepared you to do beforehand.

Keep in mind that if an employer asks an applicant about their religion, that’s a violation of law. No-one should EVER put their religion on a resume. It’s prejudicial and a great way to not get an interview.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:14:07pm

re: #63 Backwoods Sleuth

How long until the promotion blocks become a real fucking problem?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:14:26pm

re: #64 austin_blue

re: #239 Nerdy Fish

Again, I was looking at it from a believer’s point of view. I understand that faith is supposed to be everything for a Christian, but I ask you: What good is “faith” if it’s also accompanied by “a complete inability to do the job”? Churches place way too much emphasis on Christians being willing to serve in places that are way outside their lane, just for the sake of serving. (It never works well, and those volunteers eventually get burned out and stop serving, or leave the church altogether, leaving the church in an even worse position than it was in before.) The same principle is applied to public and/or professional service, encouraging people to do things they’re entirely unqualified for, purely because having “people of faith” is more important than “people of competence.” I am firmly of the belief that if God truly calls you to do a thing, it will be a thing He has prepared you to do beforehand.

Keep in mind that if an employer asks an applicant about their religion, that’s a violation of law. No-one should EVER put their religion on a resume. It’s prejudicial and a great way to not get an interview.

I interviewed a guy who talked about his missionary work. I do not like that at all, but I did hire him based on his skillset.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:14:39pm

re: #65 Eclectic Cyborg

How long until the promotion blocks become a real fucking problem?

They already are.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:17:34pm

re: #67 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

They already are.

Well yeah, I know having no Marine Corps Commandant is a serious issue, but I’m wondering like, how long until our military readiness is seriously compromised by the inability to promote senior officers?

And is there anything Democrats can do to keep things from further falling apart?

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gocart mozart  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:20:53pm

Has Roseanne always been this mentally ill and just had been much better at hiding it or this a relatively new sickness?

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austin_blue  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:22:27pm

re: #10 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

That’s far enough to give you a couple of seconds to think about how screwed you are. Not a good way to go, and certainly not a good age to go.

People don’t seem to understand that unnecessary risk can end their lives.

32 fps, 64, 96, 128 160 fps, so, 5 seconds. Hopefully she hit a projection on the way down.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:25:12pm

re: #69 gocart mozart

Has Roseanne always been this mentally ill and just had been much better at hiding it or this a relatively new sickness?

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She used to be able to hold down a demanding job, so I think she’s gotten worse.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:26:55pm

re: #69 gocart mozart

Has Roseanne always been this mentally ill and just had been much better at hiding it or this a relatively new sickness?

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She has always gotten off on being as outrageous as possible.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:31:12pm
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Patricia Kayden  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:33:56pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Haven’t watched CNN in ages. MSNBC is all I watch when it comes to politics. CNN has jumped the shark.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:33:57pm

re: #73 Backwoods Sleuth

Awesome fucking story. We need more people like him.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:34:59pm

re: #74 Patricia Kayden

Haven’t watched CNN in ages. MSNBC is all I watch when it comes to politics. CNN has jumped the shark.

Even MSNBC is getting on my last nerve recently.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:36:17pm

re: #69 gocart mozart

Conservatives just lie and lie and lie. It’s scary how they lie and don’t care who they hurt. Ukrainians are fighting for their lives and here is Roseanne demonizing them. It’s a dang shame.

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Thanos  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:37:45pm

re: #76 Charles Johnson

Even MSNBC is getting on my last nerve recently.

I still watch them all, even occasionally FOX, because I never want to become that boy in a box again.

Corey Hart Boy in the Box

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:38:46pm

re: #72 Joe Bacon ✅

While I never watched her show, I used to admire Roseanne. Loved her as a judge in a comedy competition series and always watched her interviews. Had no idea that she was going to take such a sharp right turn into wingnuttery.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:39:14pm

re: #73 Backwoods Sleuth

dolphin did not want to play…

I expected sexual assault from the dolphin. It went a lot better than expected.

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Captain Magic  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:39:54pm

re: #68 Eclectic Cyborg

One.of my great-grand relatives was a USMC Commodant.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:43:40pm

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:51:42pm

re: #65 Eclectic Cyborg

How long until the promotion blocks become a real fucking problem?

It is already a major fúcking headache in terms of long/term planning and anticipating future needs. In order to be efficient, our military cannot simply be expected to just react to situations, it has to be in a position to anticipate and make contingencies.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:54:02pm

re: #80 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I expected sexual assault from the dolphin. It went a lot better than expected.

I was expecting it was gonna go full orca

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austin_blue  Jul 12, 2023 • 1:58:00pm

re: #65 Eclectic Cyborg

How long until the promotion blocks become a real fucking problem?

They already are.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 12, 2023 • 4:15:34pm

re: #69 gocart mozart

Has Roseanne always been this mentally ill and just had been much better at hiding it or this a relatively new sickness?

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You’re assuming she’s mentally ill but remember, she’s a conservative which means she’s a liar.

So there’s that.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 12, 2023 • 4:37:26pm

re: #49 Sherlock Hound

Yes, we are there already. If you have a detached retina, the doctors will do precisely that!

The vitreous shrinks with age. In some people, it tears the retina. The surgeon grinds away the vitreous from the inside and replaces it with air. Over the course of a month or so, the eye regenerates fluid to replace the vitreous.

The only reason doctors don’t do this for non-retinal detachments is due to the perceived risk, but I have heard of people with massive floaters having this done.

I had this surgery done 3 years ago. The macular in my right eye had been torn due to the shrinking mentioned. The surgery involved extracting the fluid from the eye and then inserting a bubble of gas, replacing the fluid so as to maintain the shape of the eye. Since the bubble of gas was lighter than air, if I kept my head face down, the bubble would float to the back of the eye, pressing the macular back into position. The gas would slowly dissipate and the eye would refilll with fluid. I needed to maintain the position for about 3 days before I could stand or sit normally. It took several weeks for the gas to completely dissolve.

The results were mixed. Inner eye photos showed the macular to be closed. However, the tear never completely closed to its original state. Since the macular is where the sharpest vision is found, my vision is still blurry when I need to focus closely. I can no longer wear contacts and taking the eye exam where you read progressively smaller letters is worthless now I fail at all be the largest font sizes. Fortunately, I still can achieve 20/20 vision with glasses.

One interesting side effect of this surgery is that it results in a cataract 90% of the time after 6 to 12 months so a subsequent surgery for that is usually required.


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