Well, the worms went bad! Whoa, little Bobby, all stains are important.
Ron DeSantis attempts rebranding with bizarre new campaign ad.
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re: #3 silverdolphin
One of the hybridizers I like riffs off of the Wizard of Oz to name their hybrids.
Wow, all of that is yours? The few day lilies we have struggle to survive (mostly our blue ones, our yellow ones, and the tiger lilies).
I managed to kill our asparagus and horseradish (both are notoriously hardy).
The (only) isolated thunderstorm is about to arrive. We’ve already had thunder shake the house.
A good friend wanted to see a movie tonight and suggested Asteroid City. I knew nothing about the film (and actually neither did she). She left totally confused but let’s just say neither of us really appreciated the film, but then I’m not a Wes Anderson fan. Anyone else here see it? Your opinion?
re: #4 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Wow, all of that is yours? The few day lilies we have struggle to survive (mostly our blue ones, our yellow ones, and the tiger lilies).
I managed to kill our asparagus and horseradish (both are notoriously hardy).
One of the great things about the Pacific NW - everything grows, including weeds, which are a constant problem. But daylilies keep them down.
The best idea is to get daylilies from hybridizers from your area as they usually work hard to develop ones that grow well there. There are several in Nebraska of which Pick A Daylily looks good.
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS Central Pacific Hurricane Center Honolulu HI
200 PM HST Sat Jul 15 2023
For the central North Pacific…between 140W and 180W:
Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida is issuing
advisories on Hurricane Calvin, which is located about 1600
miles east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii. Calvin is expected to
move into the Central Pacific Hurricane Center area of
responsibility Monday morning. The latest forecast indicates
Calvin apporaching the main Hawaiian Islands as a weakening
tropical storm Tuesday night or Wednesday.
Elsewhere, no tropical cyclones are expected during the next 7
days.
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re: #7 silverdolphin
One of the great things about the Pacific NW - everything grows, including weeds, which are a constant problem. But daylilies keep them down.
The best idea is to get daylilies from hybridizers from your area as they usually work hard to develop ones that grow well there. There are several in Nebraska of which Pick A Daylily looks good.
Thanks. They are located in Lincoln, which actually has quite a bit different climate than we do, though we’re in the same state (well, we’re in East Wyoming, were are a few thousand feet higher in elevation plus Sandhills). However, they provide a telephone number, so I can give them a call to see if some of their cultivars are suitable for the Panhandle.
re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thanks. They are located in Lincoln, which actually has quite a bit different climate than we do, though we’re in the same state (well, were in East Wyoming, were are a few thousand feet higher in elevation plus Sandhills). However, they provide a telephone number, so I can give them a call to see if some of their cultivars are suitable for the Panhandle.
Try contacting the Nebraska Daylily Society also. They would surely have ideas.
re: #3 silverdolphin
One of the hybridizers I like uses riffs off of the wizard of Oz to name their hybrids.
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Very nice!
re: #3 silverdolphin
One of the hybridizers I like riffs off of the Wizard of Oz to name their hybrids.
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I can just imagine my lawn chair on the grass with me in it reading a good book.
re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter
A good friend wanted to see a movie tonight and suggested Asteroid City. I knew nothing about the film (and actually neither did she). She left totally confused but let’s just say neither of us really appreciated the film, but then I’m not a Wes Anderson fan. Anyone else here see it? Your opinion?
We are Wes Anderson fans, my sons and I,
so we did enjoy it. But I really do think it relies on you knowing his art. Kind of like understanding the point of Banksy.
re: #12 Semper Fi
I can just imagine my lawn chair on the grass with me in it reading a good book.
I have a bench hidden just off to the left where I sit in the shade during the afternoon. If there is one thing about my garden is that there is too much shade. Keeps the house from getting too hot but not great for plants.
re: #15 teleskiguy
There is no surfboarding. /s
re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter
A good friend wanted to see a movie tonight and suggested Asteroid City. I knew nothing about the film (and actually neither did she). She left totally confused but let’s just say neither of us really appreciated the film, but then I’m not a Wes Anderson fan. Anyone else here see it? Your opinion?
It’s a Wes Anderson movie so it’s going to be quirky and offbeat. I expected it to be that way and it was a badly needed diversion from the insanity in the real world.
re: #16 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There was! Like… 300 million years ago.
re: #13 Belafon
We are Wes Anderson fans, my sons and I,
so we did enjoy it. But I really do think it relies on you knowing his art. Kind of like understanding the point of Banksy.
Those fake “Wes Anderson Trailers” out there? For Star Wars or LOTR? That’s enough of his art for me for a month after watching one of them.
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Vivek Ramaswamy
@VivekGRamaswamy
Jul 14
True “privilege” is not based on the color of your skin. It’s being raised in a stable family with two parents with a focus on education and a faith in God. That’s the ultimate “privilege.”
Manny Shannon
@ShannonManny
21h
Replying to @VivekGRamaswamy
Why does Tucker only ever seem to interview the greasiest wannabe philosophers?
This religious fruitcake is trying to trick people into thinking vast inherited wealth isn’t the single biggest contributing factor to a become wealthy.
It’s just gaslighting all day and night
Jul 15, 2023 * 7:06 AM UTC
As for that Caviezel crap…
‘Sound of Freedom,’ this summer’s surprise blockbuster, is fronted by a QAnon supporter and financed by a man who defrauded Medicare
“Sound of Freedom” wrapped production in 2018, but sat in limbo for five years until its distribution rights were acquired by four Mormon brothers, who crowdfunded a campaign to get it in theaters. During that period, one of the movie’s early investors pled guilty to a massive scheme to defraud Medicare.
Sound of Freedom executive producer Andrew McCubbins, a Utah serial entrepreneur, ran a telemedicine company that paid kickbacks to physicians and nurses in exchange for unnecessary prescriptions for genetic screening tests, which were processed by a lab McCubbins owned, according to charging documents and an Insider interview with McCubbins. Medicare reimbursed up to $8,000 per test, according to the federal indictment.
McCubbins has not been sentenced, a delay he attributed to a COVID backlog of cases.
re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter
A good friend wanted to see a movie tonight and suggested Asteroid City. I knew nothing about the film (and actually neither did she). She left totally confused but let’s just say neither of us really appreciated the film, but then I’m not a Wes Anderson fan. Anyone else here see it? Your opinion?
Haven’t seen it yet and I don’t actually hate Wes Anderson’s shit but IMO it’s rooted in a specific sense of inverted 20th century American nostalgia with an intricately designed two-dimensional stage play aesthetic. It straddles the line between being annoyingly gimmicky and genuinely inspired, attempting to say something profound about the human experience while actually saying nothing at all, at least usually nothing truly insightful.
If I had only one wish for his future work it’d be that he’d confront, extremely bluntly, the role racism plays in the consensual hallucination of our collective history.
re: #23 Joe Bacon ✅
What with Rick Scott and now this McCubbins guy, it seems certain people can readily defraud Medicare with no serious repercussions.
Iowa AG, others threaten Fortune 100 companies over DEI
The GOP telling companies how to run their businesses. DEI is not based on racial quotas. They lie. This is how the GOP pushes Wall Street into the hands of moderate Third Way Democrats. Both of them agree about many financial areas. And they agree about DEI initiatives.
More of this and businesses in Red States will be fleeing. And those left behind will find it harder to recruit. Interestingly, Texas is not on the letter.
re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Why does Vivek Ramaswamy hate the children of parents killed in battle? Someone should ask him if Gold Star Families can be stable.
A Republican is guaranteed to stick their foot in their mouth over us.
re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Vivek Ramaswamy
@VivekGRamaswamy
Jul 14
True “privilege” is not based on the color of your skin. It’s being raised in a stable family with two parents with a focus on education and a faith in God. That’s the ultimate “privilege.”
Wonder if Asshole Vivek paid 18 years of child support to a spouse? Especially one who programmed a child to be a Marine who would kill Muslims for Jesus?
#22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Why does Vivek Ramaswamy hate the children of parents killed in battle? Someone should ask him Gold Star Families can be stable.
A Republican is guaranteed to stick their foot in their mouth over us.
Hearing Ramaswamy bullshit like that only justifies why I threw my Gold Star away the night Shithead Trump was elected and why I want nothing to do with the worthless consolation prize…
re: #26 silverdolphin
Iowa AG, others threaten Fortune 100 companies over DEI
The GOP telling companies how to run their businesses. DEI is not based on racial quotas. They lie. This is how the GOP pushes Wall Street into the hands of moderate Third Way Democrats. Both of them agree about many financial areas. And they agree about DEI initiatives.
More of this and businesses in Red States will be fleeing. And those left behind will find it harder to recruit. Interestingly, Texas is not on the letter.
I’m sure Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway (#6) is shaking in their money bins in Omaha over a threat from our Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R-NE).
Here’s the actual birdcage liner threat letter the thirteen wingnuts sent (PDF, seven pages, goes to the Wall Street Journal, not paywalled)
re: #23 Joe Bacon ✅
As for that Caviezel crap…
‘Sound of Freedom,’ this summer’s surprise blockbuster, is fronted by a QAnon supporter and financed by a man who defrauded Medicare
“Sound of Freedom” wrapped production in 2018, but sat in limbo for five years until its distribution rights were acquired by four Mormon brothers, who crowdfunded a campaign to get it in theaters. During that period, one of the movie’s early investors pled guilty to a massive scheme to defraud Medicare.
Sound of Freedom executive producer Andrew McCubbins, a Utah serial entrepreneur, ran a telemedicine company that paid kickbacks to physicians and nurses in exchange for unnecessary prescriptions for genetic screening tests, which were processed by a lab McCubbins owned, according to charging documents and an Insider interview with McCubbins. Medicare reimbursed up to $8,000 per test, according to the federal indictment.
McCubbins has not been sentenced, a delay he attributed to a COVID backlog of cases.
Today my barber talked about how she went to see that shit and LOVED it.
I just bit my tongue until it was over because I didn’t want to walk out of there with a half hacked head but now I have to find a new barber.
re: #31 goddamnedfrank
Today my barber talked about how she went to see that shit and LOVED it.
I just bit my tongue until it was over because I didn’t want to walk out of there with a half hacked head but now I have to find a new barber.
I heard folks raving about it when I went to the YMCA to work out this morning and yes I just kept my mouth shut while they ranted about Hollywood executives drinking adrenochrome…
re: #29 Joe Bacon ✅
Hearing bullshit like that only justifies why I threw my Gold Star away the night Shithead Trump was elected and why I want nothing to do with the worthless consolation prize…
We have different views on the pin, and that’s fine.
For me it represents what I lost due to poor government policy, and to try to work so no one else ever has to join this club no one wants to be in.
I got in a minor dust-up with the Nebraska chair of the Gold Star Mothers and families organisation, when I suggested to her that perhaps after Trump disparaged us (her son was killed in Iraq) the organisation could come out with a statement.
She noted as a Congressionally-chartered organisation the group cannot take political positions.
I told her as a (local) politician, I sure can, though I cannot speak on behalf of the organisation.
re: #26 silverdolphin
Iowa AG, others threaten Fortune 100 companies over DEI
The GOP telling companies how to run their businesses. DEI is not based on racial quotas. They lie. This is how the GOP pushes Wall Street into the hands of moderate Third Way Democrats. Both of them agree about many financial areas. And they agree about DEI initiatives.
More of this and businesses in Red States will be fleeing. And those left behind will find it harder to recruit. Interestingly, Texas is not on the letter.
I’ve wondered when will the breaking point occur when Wall Street pulls the plug on the GOP and they form either a breakaway center-right party, shift to funding the Libertarian Party or they resurrect Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive Party.
One of those three scenarios is going to happen.
err my gerd
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I ❤️ it.
re: #24 goddamnedfrank
One thing I will say about a Wes Anderson film, you know one when you’ve seen one. Like, dude has.a.style!
It might not exactly be the best style, or like I was trying to convey it might not be conducive to the needs of our current moment in history, but his shit’s genuinely characteristic, and consistent, as.fuck! Like, even if you skip the intro and credits you KNOW when you seen one of his joints.
And the thing that bothers me about how to categorize his career is that I’m still not certain how laudable that is. Like, what if maybe his oeuvre is the nostalgia equivalent of what Zuckerberg said about the old Twitter, that “it’s as if they drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in.”
re: #25 jaunte
What with Rick Scott and now this McCubbins guy, it seems certain people can readily defraud Medicare with no serious repercussions.
Because Republicans place all the burden to be non-fraudulent on the individuals and not on the suppliers.
re: #34 Joe Bacon ✅
I’ve wondered when will the breaking point occur when Wall Street pulls the plug on the GOP and they form either a breakaway center-right party, shift to funding the Libertarian Party or they resurrect Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive Party.
One of those three scenarios is going to happen.
Here is what I expect (hope). Wall Street, by themselves, would not have enough poltical power (that is why they engaged the bigots to begin with). Instead of a breakaway center-right party, I think they will merge with Third Way Dems who are almost already there on fiscal issues. This would create a moderate party with considerable strength, a Progressive wing with lessened power and a Republican with no national power. This would give businesses the most power, much more rapidly.
It would also upset the Progressive wing which would likely reach out to the other broken pieces of the GOP. I think they could make successful outreach to white working class/rural/Main Street groups and accrete enough power to be a strong opponent to the moderate party.
And we end up with a liberal and a moderate party once again ;-)
The next stadium tour Lady Gaga does I’m going to it.
Sound of Freedom is currently at 8.3/10 on IMDB and 72% on Rotten Tomatoes.
re: #41 Eclectic Cyborg
Sound of Freedom is currently at 8.3/10 on IMDB and 72% on Rotten Tomatoes.
A majority of people who choose to eat shit probably say it’s pretty good, too.
Mexico files diplomatic complaint over Gov. Greg Abbott’s floating border barriers
Creating an international incident for fun and profit.
No Labels releases proposals to guide third-party presidential ticket
Starting to think that this effort may attract more moderate Republicans than Democrats. Of course, they have to get on enough state ballots to really make any difference. But I think that if they are on the ballot for say Texas, it would hurt the GOP candidate more than the Democrat.
If they were really interestyed in winning, they would also have Congressional candidates, as any serious party does. How do they expect to get anything done in DC when they will not have any contrl of either House?
Not all actors are on strike. https://t.co/7geEhwYBO6
— Ken Layne (@KenLayne) July 14, 2023
Watch how this little one is able to find success with just the tiniest assist from Dad.
In developmental psychology, the “Zone of Proximal Development” is that area just beyond a child/learner’s independent ability - but a space in which he/she can find success with support… pic.twitter.com/iFrhsJNepg— Dan Wuori (@DanWuori) July 14, 2023
re: #41 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m going to leave a negative rating even though I haven’t seen it and have no intention to do so. This is dangerous b.s.
“NATO Expansion” is a Kremlin phrase. The question should be: why did nations seek NATO Membership as soon as they were no longer occupied or dominated by Russia? What did they know about the Kremlin that motivated them to want to join a collective defence alliance? https://t.co/0sbtuV3i9z
— Ben Hodges (@general_ben) July 15, 2023
Ukrainian fencing champion Denys Boreyko died defending Ukraine on 3, July, 2023, the National Fencing Federation reports. He was 34 years old.
Denys was a world champion and European champion among juniors, as well as a master of sports of international class.
He founded the… pic.twitter.com/eS3SGML92Z— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) July 15, 2023
re: #26 silverdolphin
Iowa AG, others threaten Fortune 100 companies over DEI
The GOP telling companies how to run their businesses. DEI is not based on racial quotas. They lie. This is how the GOP pushes Wall Street into the hands of moderate Third Way Democrats. Both of them agree about many financial areas. And they agree about DEI initiatives.
More of this and businesses in Red States will be fleeing. And those left behind will find it harder to recruit. Interestingly, Texas is not on the letter.
Two things: First of all, my evil too big to fail employer is the largest single employer in the Des Moines area. In fact, the mortgage arm is based in Des Moines. Second, and this makes me nervous, with the move to cloud based computing, there’s also been a push to move tech people to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I can tell you that people are NOT going to want to move to Texas, because it’s becoming benighted and backwards.
And oh yeah, as mentioned in the article, my employer has a huge DE&I initiative. I am not sure how my employer can tell the Iowa Governor to cut her stupid out.
re: #50 mmmirele
Two things: First of all, my evil too big to fail employer is the largest single employer in the Des Moines area. In fact, the mortgage arm is based in Des Moines. Second, and this makes me nervous, with the move to cloud based computing, there’s also been a push to move tech people to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I can tell you that people are NOT going to want to move to Texas, because it’s becoming benighted and backwards.
And oh yeah, as mentioned in the article, my employer has a huge DE&I initiative. I am not sure how my employer can tell the Iowa Governor to cut her stupid out.
One of the big problems Red States like Texas are going to see is recruiting the best in the tech industry. Those that are good enough to work anywhere will. For them, the barriers to jumping ship are almost nil. Therefore, moving to Texas for ‘business’ reasons will likely make the company less competitive.
It will not able to hire the best, only the adequate, willing to put up with the soft bigotry of Red States (some not so soft)
The GOP does not realize that DEI efforts are wanted by the Gen Z workers now being hired. They want to work for a company that recognizes the need for collaborative efforts of diverse people. Those are the companies that will be successful in today’s social environment.
We seem to have MGM (free?) on Prime video. It looks like the last big thing they did was the movie ‘2012’. It must suck to fail that bad.
Scientists genetically modify trees to produce more sustainable wood
Waiting for RFK Jr. to start podcasting that the Chinese are developing trees that will only fall on Caucasians but not Chinese.
re: #48 Captain Ron
“NATO Expansion” is a Kremlin phrase. The question should be: why did nations seek NATO Membership as soon as they were no longer occupied or dominated by Russia? What did they know about the Kremlin that motivated them to want to join a collective defence alliance?
Exactly. Central and Eastern European nations were beating the door down to join NATO, and got significant resistance from the existing NATO nations. They did not get taken over. That’s how the Russian government thinks, of course, because that’s how the Warsaw Pact worked and they can’t understand any other way to be.
Even within the West, people have to understand that NATO is essentially a committee of the NATO nations. It is not some world government, and Stoltenberg isn’t Emperor of the West. Stoltenberg says what the North Atlantic Council authorizes him to say, and the Council itself is the 31 national ambassadors. Well-meaning people may say that, for example, NATO put missiles in Poland, but in reality all NATO nations, including Poland, agreed to put missiles there. It sounds like a subtle point but it’s really not.
The University of Kyoto in Japan allows students to wear anything they want for their Graduation ceremony. This is the way. pic.twitter.com/CXm41M4qxP
— Rob (@thegallowboob) July 15, 2023
re: #31 goddamnedfrank
Today my barber talked about how she went to see that shit and LOVED it.
I just bit my tongue until it was over because I didn’t want to walk out of there with a half hacked head but now I have to find a new barber.
Yeah, there’s an ultra right barber at my usual haunt. For awhile, I was just avoiding him, but now I’m experimenting to see if I can back him into various rogerian compromises.
He’s going to tweet that “Artillery is the final argument of Kings” because he saw it on a load screen for TOTAL WAR: EMPIRE. pic.twitter.com/85g9On8GQg
— Eric L. Robinson (@UticaEric) July 15, 2023
The Ukrainians can just pack it in, kids, the military genius hath spoken.
Maybe he can be one of our square mileage military geniuses too. Remember, the Allies held 80 square miles at the end of D-Day, and there were around 2 million square miles controlled by the Nazi government, so it took 68 and a half years to defeat the Third Reich. That’s just math!
re: #26 silverdolphin
Are they going to target the federal government who is a strong proponent of using DEI initiatives?
re: #62 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Are they going to target the federal government who is a strong proponent of using DEI initiatives?
If they get the power to do so, most definitely.
re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter
A good friend wanted to see a movie tonight and suggested Asteroid City. I knew nothing about the film (and actually neither did she). She left totally confused but let’s just say neither of us really appreciated the film, but then I’m not a Wes Anderson fan. Anyone else here see it? Your opinion?
From previews, I know that it is very Wes Anderson.
I like his style, but it is a matter of personal taste.
re: #31 goddamnedfrank
Today my barber talked about how she went to see that shit and LOVED it.
I just bit my tongue until it was over because I didn’t want to walk out of there with a half hacked head but now I have to find a new barber.
My nephew, a former CIA employee, says he was impressed at how realistically they portrayed the Colombian guerilla camps.
re: #36 goddamnedfrank
One thing I will say about a Wes Anderson film, you know one when you’ve seen one. Like, dude has.a.style!
I can highly recommend Grand Hotel Budapest, Isle of Dogs and The French Dispatch. But again, you gotta have a love of deadpan, detached ironic humor and an appreciation for quirky characters and non-linear stories.
re: #46 Captain Ron
Watch how this little one is able to find success with just the tiniest assist from Dad.
In developmental psychology, the “Zone of Proximal Development” is that area just beyond a child/learner’s independent ability - but a space in which he/she can find success with support (or “scaffolding”) from a more competent teacher or peer.
when my kids fell down, I never went to go pick them up unless they were hurt, I offered them a hand so they could get up on their own
🦚 Strutting the birb. 🦚
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25 on board right now. Two Canadian football teams plus referee.
Doing the Wordle Waddle.
Couldn’t even find the fairway so happy to take the par.
Wordle 757 4/6
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Tried the Connections beta. Some of the linking concepts are a bit too America-centric for me to grok readily.
re: #23 Joe Bacon ✅
As for that Caviezel crap…
‘Sound of Freedom,’ this summer’s surprise blockbuster, is fronted by a QAnon supporter and financed by a man who defrauded Medicare
“Sound of Freedom” wrapped production in 2018, but sat in limbo for five years until its distribution rights were acquired by four Mormon brothers, who crowdfunded a campaign to get it in theaters. During that period, one of the movie’s early investors pled guilty to a massive scheme to defraud Medicare.
Sound of Freedom executive producer Andrew McCubbins, a Utah serial entrepreneur, ran a telemedicine company that paid kickbacks to physicians and nurses in exchange for unnecessary prescriptions for genetic screening tests, which were processed by a lab McCubbins owned, according to charging documents and an Insider interview with McCubbins. Medicare reimbursed up to $8,000 per test, according to the federal indictment.
McCubbins has not been sentenced, a delay he attributed to a COVID backlog of cases.
If “Sounds of Freedom” we’re about rescuing kids from a real American current catastrophe like the daily arrests. convictions, and prison for Christian preachers, Youth Ministers and Priests for child sexual abuse and pornography then perhaps it could be taken a bit more seriously. As it stands it is nothing more than a typical 80’s style “let’s go kick some weird foreigner ass” piece of propaganda.
Feel good to manage a par.
Wound up with 4.2 inches of rain overnight - giving us 5.1 in just the last 3 days and more than 40 for the year. Currently a “comfy” 73 with 94 percent humidity as the morning sun makes it feel like a sauna. Good day to stay inside and do some house stuff.
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re: #60 steve_davis
Yeah, there’s an ultra right barber at my usual haunt. For awhile, I was just avoiding him, but now I’m experimenting to see if I can back him into various rogerian compromises.
I went to a certain barber only once. We were sharing Vietnam stories and his best was how he snuck out and killed people and had the skulls buried under his cot. Very convincing.
One thing about fascists is that they’re a bunch of straight up weirdoes. The kind of people who would revive the phrase “colored people” as an insider code for each other. Because like, even garden variety racists don’t use that term and haven’t for decades.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) July 16, 2023
Countdown to the GOP calling for balanced weapons support to Russia in 3..2..1..
Yesterday I saw a Christmas tree ad on tv
Today we got a 2024 calendar in the mail
It is July right?
Did I miss a memo?
re: #79 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Yesterday I saw a Christmas tree ad on tv
Today we got a 2024 calendar in the mailIt is July right?
Did I miss a memo?
Shut up and drink your pumpkin spice latte.
re: #80 darthstar
Shut up and drink your pumpkin spice latte.
;-)
I’ve been away for 2 days
How you feeling?
re: #23 Joe Bacon ✅
As for that Caviezel crap…
‘Sound of Freedom,’ this summer’s surprise blockbuster, is fronted by a QAnon supporter and financed by a man who defrauded Medicare
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Regardless of the accuracy of the specific storyline, the question is whether the movie itself is anti-Semitic or promotes issues that are untrue, whether the problems depicted are unreal. I had always enjoyed Caviezel as an actor (no — did not and will not see Passion of the Christ) and am very fond of the sci-fi thriller Deja Vu which may have the Bannon philosophy at its core in explaining the antagonist’s (Caviezel) motivation.
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Many Republicans Worry Trump Is Unstoppable
You can stop him
Don’t vote for him
Don’t support him
Simple
re: #79 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Yesterday I saw a Christmas tree ad on tv
Today we got a 2024 calendar in the mailIt is July right?
Did I miss a memo?
Christmas in July is apparently a thing.
State Guard Set Up by DeSantis Turns Militaristic
“A Florida state guard established by the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, under the guise of a civilian disaster relief force is instead being trained as an armed, combat-ready militia under his personal command, according to military veteran recruits who have quit the program,” The Guardian reports.
Turns?
No.
That was always the plan
re: #76 darthstar
Countdown to the GOP calling for balanced weapons support to Russia in 3..2..1..
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A lot of Republicans want us to stop sending military aid to Russia. And Putin has bragged before about how well supplied the Russian army is, and how they were going to win quickly.
re: #47 Patricia Kayden
I’m going to leave a negative rating even though I haven’t seen it and have no intention to do so. This is dangerous b.s.
My impression is that the problem isn’t with the movie itself but with the promoters and the lead actor. It’s just a variation on Taken.
Wanna see some delusion about the war:
I love the idea of no nations. Russia loves the idea of no Ukraine and no one that identifies as Ukrainian and a return to the days of the Soviet Union. Until you can figure out the difference, you’re just a child.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 16, 2023
NATO is not in Ukraine, there is nothing for it to “exit” from. The only country that has anything to “exit” from is Russia.
Also you haven’t explained anything. What compromise do you think Russia is willing to offer? None of what they want in this war is even NATO’s to give. https://t.co/DyMihoz3ow— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) July 16, 2023
re: #50 mmmirele
Two things: First of all, my evil too big to fail employer is the largest single employer in the Des Moines area. In fact, the mortgage arm is based in Des Moines. Second, and this makes me nervous, with the move to cloud based computing, there’s also been a push to move tech people to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I can tell you that people are NOT going to want to move to Texas, because it’s becoming benighted and backwards.
And oh yeah, as mentioned in the article, my employer has a huge DE&I initiative. I am not sure how my employer can tell the Iowa Governor to cut her stupid out.
Capitalism is totally amoral. It’s not that successful capitalists prefer to harm people; it’s just that they will adopt the approach that they believe will most benefit the bottom line. And they will abandon DEI the instant they think it harms them financially.
re: #81 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
;-)
I’ve been away for 2 days
How you feeling?
I’m doing pretty well. Slight headache this morning but no body aches…the tiniest fleck of flem in the back of my throat I try to cough up, but it never went into my lungs. May test myself later today to see “how positive” I still am (I know, it’s like saying you’re partially pregnant). My first test on Thursday was negative, then Friday morning when I had been up all night with fever and body pain I tested again and the 15 minute test took less than 2 minutes, so I know I was a raging covid machine. By yesterday I was able to walk the dogs without getting worn out, and managed to stay up and stream the whole Dead & Co show.
Hoping to test negative by tomorrow or Tuesday at the latest as I have my orientation at the Elks on Tuesday night. (the club I’m joining has a nice little nine hole golf course)
Live weather report from NE Philly: It is raining. How do I know that? I just changed my battery on my Ring Doorbell.
This article is bringing me so much joy. pic.twitter.com/3hbn8cKsw8
— jessica kant (@jessdkant) July 16, 2023
There are now already 21 petitions against private jets at German airports(weact.campact.de) with a total of over 100,000 signatures.
Some recent progress:
Munich: 10,000 signatures(weact.campact.de)
Düsseldorf: 10,000 signatures(weact.campact.de)
Cologne/Bonn: 5,000 signatures(weact.campact.de)
Sylt: 5,000 signatures(weact.campact.de)
Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden: 1,000 signatures(weact.campact.de)But the other airports need support too!
#BanPrivateJets
Translated from Deutsch using deepl.com
re: #90 darthstar
I’m doing pretty well. Slight headache this morning but no body aches…the tiniest fleck of flem in the back of my throat I try to cough up, but it never went into my lungs. May test myself later today to see “how positive” I still am (I know, it’s like saying you’re partially pregnant). My first test on Thursday was negative, then Friday morning when I had been up all night with fever and body pain I tested again and the 15 minute test took less than 2 minutes, so I know I was a raging covid machine. By yesterday I was able to walk the dogs without getting worn out, and managed to stay up and stream the whole Dead & Co show.
Hoping to test negative by tomorrow or Tuesday at the latest as I have my orientation at the Elks on Tuesday night. (the club I’m joining has a nice little nine hole golf course)
Everyone responds differently. I was very ill for about a day, took paxlovid. and then tested positive for about 3 weeks, though I felt fine after my first couple days.
re: #52 silverdolphin
One of the big problems Red States like Texas are going to see is recruiting the best in the tech industry. Those that are good enough to work anywhere will. For them, the barriers to jumping ship are almost nil. Therefore, moving to Texas for ‘business’ reasons will likely make the company less competitive.
It will not able to hire the best, only the adequate, willing to put up with the soft bigotry of Red States (some not so soft)
The GOP does not realize that DEI efforts are wanted by the Gen Z workers now being hired. They want to work for a company that recognizes the need for collaborative efforts of diverse people. Those are the companies that will be successful in today’s social environment.
My agency can’t fill vacant management positions in states like Texas, Florida, Missouri, Iowa and other red states. They continually sweeten the pot with full relocation assistance and bonuses but there are no takers.
For me? This Jew does NOT feel safe relocating to a state where Republicans play the stupid card and allow insecure people to open carry assault weapons. Especially with the ignorance being stoked by the QAssholes. And I do not want to live in a state where a woman could be prosecuted for murder if she miscarries. I can’t live in a right wing Xtian theocracy. In California I am safe. In Texas I am not safe. Period.
re: #88 Belafon
Asshole tankie/apologist: I just explained the deal, the US in collaboration with NATO should offer their exit from this war in exchange for concessions from Russia. Pretty straightforward
Note also that Ukrainian sovereignty is just completely ignored. To your Russian apologist, Ukraine is simply a spoil to be owned and fought over, which currently belongs to America and that we should give back to Russia like it was a goat or a cow or something.
The comparison with this attitude and conservatives’ attitudes towards women, children, and minorities is an exercise for the reader.
re: #89 Hecuba’s daughter
Capitalism is totally amoral. It’s not that successful capitalists prefer to harm people; it’s just that they will adopt the approach that they believe will most benefit the bottom line. And they will abandon DEI the instant they think it harms them financially.
Capitalism is amoral; people are not, and they have in the past been moved to do the right thing — and have moved even corporate persons (which are made up of people) to do the same. We can do it again.
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re: #90 darthstar
I’m doing pretty well. Slight headache this morning but no body aches…the tiniest fleck of flem in the back of my throat I try to cough up, but it never went into my lungs. May test myself later today to see “how positive” I still am (I know, it’s like saying you’re partially pregnant). My first test on Thursday was negative, then Friday morning when I had been up all night with fever and body pain I tested again and the 15 minute test took less than 2 minutes, so I know I was a raging covid machine. By yesterday I was able to walk the dogs without getting worn out, and managed to stay up and stream the whole Dead & Co show.
Hoping to test negative by tomorrow or Tuesday at the latest as I have my orientation at the Elks on Tuesday night. (the club I’m joining has a nice little nine hole golf course)
I’m right there with you. Exposed June 30th. Tested positive July 3rd. Felt better but now I’m going through a “rebound” where most of symptoms have come back. Lots of coughing, my nose won’t stop running, I’m exhausted, and somehow I injured my lower back so I feel a shooting pain. 2.5 weeks in. Ugh.
Early fundraising totals show some warning signs for GOP candidates
he second-quarter fundraising deadline passed Saturday night without much to show, with all candidates — President Joe Biden and Donald Trump included — posting lower-than-expected totals, reported Politico.
Ron DeSantis posted a higher topline number, $20 million, than Trump’s campaign committee, which came in at $17 million, which mostly came from his joint fundraising committee, but the former president eclipses his GOP rivals in small-dollar donations — at $14.6 million compared to $2.8 million for the Florida governor.
The lack of small-dollar donors is a warning sign for GOP candidates looking ahead at the general election, and while Biden is behind the fundraising pace set by Trump and Barack Obama in their own re-election campaigns, the prospect of a second term for him isn’t driving up donations for Republican challengers.
re: #96 ericblair
Note also that Ukrainian sovereignty is just completely ignored. To your Russian apologist, Ukraine is simply a spoil to be owned and fought over, which currently belongs to America and that we should give back to Russia like it was a goat or a cow or something.
The comparison with this attitude and conservatives’ attitudes towards women, children, and minorities is an exercise for the reader.
Oooh I hated that phrase
re: #106 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Oooh I hated that phrase
I’m currently reading a probability book, and am going to get back into math and physics, and that phrase is truly frustrating.
re: #97 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Capitalism is amoral; people are not, and they have in the past been moved to do the right thing — and have moved even corporate persons (which are made up of people) to do the same. We can do it again.
Finding areas where capitalism and people intersect and coexist symbiotically is the challenge. Capitalism won’t take a constant loss for morality and ethics but it can be taught how to profit from it
Whether it’s Joe Biden saying the US has created structural barriers that hold Black people back or RFK Jr. saying China designed COVID to make the Jews stronger, both men have inserted divisive racial narratives into our national dialogue.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) July 16, 2023
re: #94 Hecuba’s daughter
Everyone responds differently. I was very ill for about a day, took paxlovid. and then tested positive for about 3 weeks, though I felt fine after my first couple days.
Mostly the same for me. First day had the fever, then tested positive, hit the paxlovid. That stuff tastes funky metallic. 5th day I tested and could barely see the line. It was def a different bug. The phlegm tastes different than normal. Might have been the giant horse pills of paxlovid. Or all the hydroxycodrenochrome I was Scarfacing.
Winner:
Democrats sabotaging Marianne Williamson’s campaign by not donating
Yay, Texas:
Blue democracy counts: Minnesota topples Texas to grab top 5 spot as best state to live and work in.
Thanks, @GovTimWalz https://t.co/i5An6YXW4a— 💙 True Blue Democracy 🟧 (@snitstwits) July 16, 2023
re: #76 darthstar
Countdown to the GOP calling for balanced weapons support to Russia in 3..2..1..
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As “leftist” Michael Tracey says, aiding democracies defending themselves from fascists is dangerous escalation, and failing to provide aid to fascists to support their wars of conquest is also dangerous escalation. So we should really end all military aid to Ukraine and drop all economic sanctions on Russia.
re: #79 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Yesterday I saw a Christmas tree ad on tv
Today we got a 2024 calendar in the mailIt is July right?
Did I miss a memo?
Can the War on Christmas® be far behind?
re: #106 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Oooh I hated that phrase
It can mean “the author hasn’t figured it out yet, but let’s just skip over that”, or “the author is smart but also lazy”. This one is a gimme!
Miazaki’s new film was released today in Japan. The English title will be the Boy and the Heron, about a kids who loses his mom during the fire bombing of Tokyo and, while trying to deal with it, meets a talking heron.
re: #117 ericblair
It can mean “the author hasn’t figured it out yet, but let’s just skip over that”, or “the author is smart but also lazy”. This one is a gimme!
It’s also “The author considers the answer so simple that if you can’t figure it out you shouldn’t be reading this book.”
re: #80 darthstar
Shut up and drink your pumpkin spice latte.
My wife and I ate at Cracker Barrel the other night. In the store at the front they had a huge display of fall clothing and Thanksgiving decor.
Meanwhile it’s 102 degrees outside…
re: #119 Belafon
It’s also “The author considers the answer so simple that if you can’t figure it out you shouldn’t be reading this book.”
That’s what the author wants you to think.
Question for bluesky people: how can you tell the account is the real person? No verification that I see.
re: #120 Eclectic Cyborg
My wife and I ate at Cracker Barrel the other night. In the store at the front they had a huge display of fall clothing and Thanksgiving decor.
Meanwhile it’s 102 degrees outside…
It only made it up to the 90’s up here in ‘Northern’ Virginia. But Costco already has all the Halloween merchandise out. And I was looking at the kitkats which I pass out on Halloween. They are now $35 for a carton (36 candy bars).
Anti-vax maniac Novak Djokovic getting put to the test by Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final. Second set took 1.5 hours with Alcaraz wining the tiebreaker. Currently 1-1.
re: #124 Ace Rothstein
Anti-vax maniac Novak Djokovic getting put to the test by Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon final. Second set took 1.5 hours with Alcaraz wining the tiebreaker. Currently 1-1.
Good. I saw that it was 4-0 in the first set and am happy to see a change of momentum.
No Powerball winner last night.
Jackpot going up.
re: #122 HRH Stanley Sea
Question for bluesky people: how can you tell the account is the real person? No verification that I see.
My information is from this past Spring, fwiw -
In short. as far as I can tell, there is no centralized authority that verifies that any specific Bluesky account is directly tied to any specific individual.
There is a theoretical mechanism in that a Bluesky account can be tied directly to an internet domain. One could in theory then research the identity that the domain represents.
Sorry to get all philosophical here, but the concept of ‘personhood’ is a difficult one in our society.
Even in the ‘meat’ world, the concept is complicated. Corporations are persons. Are ghosts persons? If a person doesn’t have ‘legal’ documentation, is that a real person? If 500 refugees fleeing climate disaster perish in the Mediterranean Sea, but nobody knows who they were, and the bodies are not found, did they exist?
I posted a verse of the lyrics to a song last night asking of a soldier who died in World War 1 asking about identity.
re: #52 ckkatz
And finally - the famous cartoon. (Posting link to the wiki picture in order to respect intellectual property rights)
Honestly, for $9m I could get a pretty badass kitchen.
re: #89 Hecuba’s daughter
Capitalism is totally amoral. It’s not that successful capitalists prefer to harm people; it’s just that they will adopt the approach that they believe will most benefit the bottom line. And they will abandon DEI the instant they think it harms them financially.
Agreed. Right now it works for the suits. When it doesn’t they’ll say that they have to drop it to compete in a tough environment.
Cateen picked interesting lighting and setting for his little concert today:
re: #130 ckkatz
Sorry to get all philosophical here, but the concept of ‘personhood’ is a difficult one in our society.
Even in the ‘meat’ world, the concept is complicated. Corporations are persons. Are ghosts persons? If a person doesn’t have ‘legal’ documentation, is that a real person? If 500 refugees fleeing climate disaster perish in the Mediterranean Sea, but nobody knows who they were, and the bodies are not found, did they exist?
You’ve got persons and personas, and they link to each other but aren’t the same thing. You have multiple personas when it comes to email, if you have a personal email account and then a different business account. If you have several jobs or roles, you might have different personas for those. On the other hand, multiple people can have the same persona if it’s a group account, like the helpdesk. You might need personas for automated accounts or devices too.
Then there’s the idea of how to verify who’s the real person and persona, which gets complicated when you have a federation. You need a trusted authority or set of authorities that all the federates agree on. Or, you can use some sort of blockchain, which makes things go zillions of times slower and less efficiently but you only have to agree on a system.
For $900m you could fill a lot of bellies and house a lot of unhoused folks.
And the WiFi would be killer.
I have to add the video it’s so damn good🏳️🌈. pic.twitter.com/fDbJFIReQm
— Skyleigh Heinen (@Sky_Lee_1) July 15, 2023
re: #89 Hecuba’s daughter
Capitalism is totally amoral. It’s not that successful capitalists prefer to harm people; it’s just that they will adopt the approach that they believe will most benefit the bottom line. And they will abandon DEI the instant they think it harms them financially.
Milton Friedman and his shareholder capitalism have damaged capitalism severely. Much of what we see today is not strictly due to capitlaism but to Friedman’s, and the Republicans, very sepcial type.
Stakeholder capitalism, where the company serves customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, and local communities, not just shareholders, presents to my mind, a better approach today. It preserves long term value over short term gain.
A company like Apple has demonstrably been using stakeholder capitalism since Jobs came back. Costco is another example.Both have been very successful. I do not expect them to abandon DEI as long as it provides benefits to its stakeholders.
I believe that being geared towards stakeholder capitalism provides greater adaptive advantages in today’s complex economy than the monovision of shareholder capitalism. But this requires a very different organizational structure for the corporation , and new regulatons, than most companies today possess. So many will fail to adapt.
Flunked out of high school.
Hubby waved his Twinkee in front of underage girls.
Son got teenaged girlfriend pregnant.
Yet Klannie Oakley has the audacity to say this…
Lauren Boebert blames America’s ‘moral decay’ on leaders who ‘traded truth for a lie’
We really need a role model like this twit to lecture us about morality, RIGHT??????
And of course Klannie Oakley utters this bullshit at Turning Pointless where a bunch of quite immoral ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream is going on.
re: #153 A Cranky One
That is almost as good as checking off the little blank instead of putting in a number or the word “not.”
re: #151 Joe Bacon ✅
Yeah, but the key thing here is that the entire moral world system she’s proposing is bullshit, and would be bullshit even if she was impeccable.
She’s not saying it because she believes it, or the audience believes it, but because it’s a very short and simplistic fable that makes them feel better…and they need that because they are absolutely not going to be morally exemplary in ways that impinge on their appetites and conveniences.
It’s proposing the simulation of morality is as good as morality: being perceived as is the same as is, and the contract they are all making with one another is that they will by consensus perform respectability and acknowledge each other as moral even as they do not do the actual thing, morality.
re: #86 Belafon
A lot of Republicans want us to stop sending military aid to Russia. And Putin has bragged before about how well supplied the Russian army is, and how they were going to win quickly.
He believed that they were well supplied and would win quickly. His generals obviously knew better but figured that a quick victory would cover up the deficits
Oops
re: #92 Belafon
Barbie is supposed to be a role model for young white American girls to show them what kind of woman they want to grow up to be: Perfect in every way.
Enzymes like furin are not differentially compatible with different ethnicities.
Jewish or Chinese protease consensus sequences are not a thing in biochemistry, but they are in racism and antisemitism. pic.twitter.com/MbO8K3WPn2— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) July 15, 2023
Oh, ok, he’s not an antisemite, he just believes a bunch of antisemitic racist pseudoscientific horseshit that he just happened to read and pick up on. Good to know.
Their economy has been regressing for many years. Gee, I wonder why. Here’s one reason.
re: #95 Joe Bacon ✅
My agency can’t fill vacant management positions in states like Texas, Florida, Missouri, Iowa and other red states. They continually sweeten the pot with full relocation assistance and bonuses but there are no takers.
For me? This Jew does NOT feel safe relocating to a state where Republicans play the stupid card and allow insecure people to open carry assault weapons. Especially with the ignorance being stoked by the QAssholes. And I do not want to live in a state where a woman could be prosecuted for murder if she miscarries. I can’t live in a right wing Xtian theocracy. In California I am safe. In Texas I am not safe. Period.
You exactly define the tragedy of Texas.
Only California has a higher Diversity Index than Texas (the probablitlty that two random people meeting in the state are different races or ethnic groups). The Houston Energy Corridor is not only becoming a center for large energy companies but also a haven for clean energy startups. Only California produces more solar power. Texas produces 30% of the total wind power in the US, over 3 times as much as any other state. Having 3 of the top 10 cities in the US, plus the innovation center of Austin, should see Texas lead us into the future.
Texas could be a beacon to the country but that has been suppressed by the GOP running it. So now too many people want to avoid it.
I hold out hope that changing demographics will displace the GOP in the state, even as the national party implodes. Until then, the tragedy of Texas will see it fall behind more and more.
re: #158 ericblair
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Oh, ok, he’s not an antisemite, he just believes a bunch of antisemitic racist pseudoscientific horseshit that he just happened to read and pick up on. Good to know.
I just stole that & posted it on Mastodon.
re: #152 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The only thing I think Angela misses, in her criticism of “AI”, is that she (like many others) thinks she (a human) is somehow fundamentally different than a pattern matching machine.
She and other critics seem to hold that they are some sort of Platonic ideal, or in religious terms, a “soul”, that is independent of the pattern-matching brain.
Our brain does pattern matching. It’s on a scale well beyond current machine-learning tools, but our wet-ware is still a machine.
The denial of the machine-ness of ourselves is pretty rampant even among scientists.
This is because the soul-concept is fundamental to humans and drives most religions. Other concepts like gods or demons are just added over time to express our creativity, but the fundamental is the soul.
So while I think current ML is very primitive, it is no less so than any biological simple brain.
I believe what we’re looking at is simply a matter of two things:
1) scale; and
2) possibly the low level randomness at the atomic level in biological neurons that gives wet brains a randomness that our ML tools do not have.
re: #158 ericblair
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Oh, ok, he’s not an antisemite, he just believes a bunch of antisemitic racist pseudoscientific horseshit that he just happened to read and pick up on. Good to know.
And that word “accurately” is herniating itself with all that heavy lifting he wants it to do…..
ALSO: are we going to go back to to re-defining Finns out of the category of “White”Link….???
re: #159 teleskiguy
Back in 2014, there was a BBC documentary by Robert Peston, their economics guy, called “How China Fooled the World”. Basically, China’s economy is built on sand - the documentary discussed how the biggest potential risk to China was that their economy was built on a gargantuan real-estate bubble…and that turned out to be a largely correct analysis in the wake of the Evergrande scandal, the repercussions of which are still echoing across their economy.
re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Barbie is supposed to be a role model for young white American girls to show them what kind of woman they want to grow up to be: Perfect in every way.
I was never allowed a Barbie. Not sure if mom objected to the hourglass figure and walking on tip-toes, or if it was the unrelenting consumerism, but either way it was a no. Also no doll babies in strollers or EZ-Bake ovens. I had lots of stuffed animals, and a Raggedy Ann, but nothing that modeled housewife&mother.
From the information given, I see a murder/suicide, but there may be a note that isn’t being talked about that supports the “gun goes off during cleaning,” a time when guns are not loaded, hypothesis.
2 dead in Bolingbrook after gun goes off during cleaning, police say (ABC 7)
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re: #145 Dave In Austin
Went out to Burnet for Breakfast this morning then down to Marble Falls to the Pottery Ranch to get a pot for a deck foundation.
This place is constant fun with the still they have.
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Cutting board toilet seats, I like
re: #160 silverdolphin
You exactly define the tragedy of Texas.
Only California has a higher Diversity Index than Texas (the probablitlty that two random people meeting in the state are different races or ethnic groups). The Houston Energy Corridor is not only becoming a center for large energy companies but also a haven for clean energy startups. Only California produces more solar power. Texas produces 30% of the total wind power in the US, over 3 times as much as any other state. Having 3 of the top 10 cities in the US, plus the innovation center of Austin, should see Texas lead us into the future.
Texas could be a beacon to the country but that has been suppressed by the GOP running it. So now too many people want to avoid it.
I hold out hope that changing demographics will displace the GOP in the state, even as the national party implodes. Until then, the tragedy of Texas will see it fall behind more and more.
If demographics could do it, it would be done. It takes political action. Register people to vote, then encourage them to turn out and vote. Particularly the young. If it was just demographics, there would not have been such a north/south divide in California when you were there. Beto almost beat Cruz. It will happen through hard work, plus money.
re: #166 sagehen
I was never allowed a Barbie. Not sure if mom objected to the hourglass figure and walking on tip-toes, or if it was the unrelenting consumerism, but either way it was a no. Also no doll babies in strollers or EZ-Bake ovens. I had lots of stuffed animals, and a Raggedy Ann, but nothing that modeled housewife&mother.
My older daughter still has the giant Raggedy Ann doll I got her for her second Christmas (1978). I don’t think she ever had a Barbie either, which is surprising given her mother’s aggressively evangelical/domestic outlook. She did not believe it was right or natural for women to work. She did provide crucial help, though, in one of her second husband’s grandiose projects, a huge insurance scam that landed both of them in prison. Her second husband, btw, was my church deacon brother Judas, er, Dan. In spite of all this they remained pillars of the church right to the end of their lives.
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