The Bob Cesca Podcast: 28 Cockroaches in a Human Suit

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

28 Cockroaches In A Human Suit — [Explicit Content] Bombshell AP story about the Trump plan to dismantle the government. Biden’s age doesn’t really matter. Mitch McConnell has another medical episode. Brian Kemp will not support Republican effort to oust Fani Willis. Trump pleads not-guilty in Fulton County. Fox News hosts say anyone under indictment can’t be president. Letitia James files for summary judgment against the Trump Organization. Tiny Trump refuses to comply with COVID mandates. Tucker Carlson’s rumor-mongering about Obama. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by The Metal Byrds, Luke LeBlanc, and more!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 31, 2023 • 4:43:10pm

re: #91 sagehen

so they’ve released the transcript of Tump’s deposition for the NY case. Among other tidbits… he blames it all on Eric.

We all knew he was going to throw the dim one under the bus, didn’t we?

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Charles Johnson  Aug 31, 2023 • 4:45:48pm

Excuse me while I get blown away by the AI retouching features in the latest Photoshop. The way it deletes subjects and fills in backgrounds (that are NOT in the original photo!) is nothing short of astounding.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 31, 2023 • 4:47:18pm

re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We all knew he was going to throw the dim one under the bus, didn’t we?

Isn’t that nice. He threw Beavis under bus while Butthead keeps snorting the nose candy.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 31, 2023 • 4:48:22pm

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 31, 2023 • 4:50:59pm

re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We all knew he was going to throw the dim one under the bus, didn’t we?

Be funny if Eric ends up being the one that flips on dad

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Belafon  Aug 31, 2023 • 4:56:35pm

re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We all knew he was going to throw the dim one under the bus, didn’t we?

Eric volunteered so he could take over the family business later. That’s how the Kingpin did it in one of the versions of Spider-Man.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 31, 2023 • 4:57:10pm

re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We all knew he was going to throw the dim one under the bus, didn’t we?

guess that’s why Jr got Maralardo

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Unabogie  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:01:07pm

Jr is probably crying that Daddy didn’t even love him enough to make him the family scapegoat.

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Unabogie  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:03:04pm

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:11:19pm

GOP is trying to do a BUTTER EMAILS to Joe Biden.

Mastodon

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:26:45pm

Looks like Kemp has put a rod in the spokes of those trying to derail Fannie Willis.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:27:38pm

Twitter is getting ugly today.

I clicked the hashtag because I was curious about it in the way people are curious about car wrecks on the highway.

I wish I hadn’t.

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sagehen  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:29:22pm

FAFO is Right

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:31:42pm

re: #12 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

Twitter is getting ugly today.

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I clicked the hashtag because I was curious about it in the way people are curious about car wrecks on the highway.

I wish I hadn’t.

A friend noped out of Twitter today. I don’t know if those two things are related.
I checked BlueSky for an invite, and had received one since the last time I checked yesterday, so I gave him a code.

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austin_blue  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:32:22pm

Well fuck, you go out w/ some friends and get some pizza, and you come home to a mass shooting at the Arboretum (a group of very high-end retail spaces on the NW side of town).

Two dead, one critical, several others injured.

But freedom, blood, tree, etc. It just gets so old, so fast, you can’t keep track of the carnage.

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jeffreyw  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:37:52pm

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:41:42pm

I’ve already smoked a lot of weed at concerts in Illinois, but it’s fantastic that it’s officially OK at this one. If not for the uptick in covid with new vaccines near but not yet here, I’d go to see Cypress Hill.

MUNDELEIN, Ill. — Organizers have announced Illinois’ first concert that permits cannabis consumption - a two-day event in September that merges music and cannabis culture - set to take place in north suburban Mundelein.

The inaugural ‘Miracle in Mundelein’ lineup includes performances by Cypress Hill, Action Bronson, Stephen Marley, and more, Sept. 9-10, across the street from RISE Cannabis Mundelein Recreational Dispensary, located at 1325 Armour Blvd.

Illinois’ first music festival permitting cannabis consumption announced (WGN)

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jaunte  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:42:53pm

Anyone left here that needs a Bluesky invite code?

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:45:34pm

I do, if you still have it. :)

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jaunte  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:46:46pm

re: #19 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:50:40pm

Mastodon

Tomorrow I’m making a list of things we need for the shop.

Man, if money were no object I would spend so much money from this catalogue. It’s like musicians walking into Guitar Center for skiers.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Aug 31, 2023 • 5:55:21pm

re: #20 jaunte

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Thanks!

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jaunte  Aug 31, 2023 • 6:01:15pm

Trump rambled so much in a NY fraud case deposition that a lawyer griped, ‘we’re going to be here until midnight’
businessinsider.com

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Captain Ron  Aug 31, 2023 • 6:07:54pm
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Belafon  Aug 31, 2023 • 6:16:40pm

The two episodes of Fiona And Cake are the most adult cartoons you will see.

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wrenchwench  Aug 31, 2023 • 6:17:01pm

The Bluesky invite I got yesterday is still available.

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Unabogie  Aug 31, 2023 • 6:20:40pm

re: #23 jaunte

Trump rambled so much in a NY fraud case deposition that a lawyer griped, ‘we’re going to be here until midnight’
businessinsider.com

The dude is dangerously insane.

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 31, 2023 • 6:32:39pm

re: #27 Unabogie

The dude is dangerously insane.

Donald Trump is dangerously insane. The Dude abides.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 31, 2023 • 6:38:36pm

Here’s a Bluesky code if it’s needed by friend or family.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 31, 2023 • 6:42:18pm

re: #25 Belafon

The two episodes of Fiona And Cake are the most adult cartoons you will see.

Adventure Time is so criminally underrated.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 31, 2023 • 6:42:42pm
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darthstar  Aug 31, 2023 • 6:53:30pm

re: #31 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Gee…I wonder if Iowa’s tired of being considered one of the most retarded voting blocs in the nation because any crazy asshole can hold up a bible and secure a good 30% of the vote.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 31, 2023 • 6:54:15pm

re: #31 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

HOT DIGGITY DOGGY! That’s awesome news!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 31, 2023 • 6:57:47pm

re: #32 darthstar

Gee…I wonder if Iowa’s tired of being considered one of the most retarded voting blocs in the nation because any crazy asshole can hold up a bible and secure a good 30% of the vote.

That roughly 30% of nutbags is nationwide. In any election there’s always that roughly 30% (28-33 is the spread I’ve seen mostly) who are delusional, demented or brainwashed by bibles, guns and crosses [flaming or otherwise]).

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 31, 2023 • 6:58:39pm

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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:04:38pm
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BigPapa  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:07:46pm

re: #19 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

I do, if you still have it. :)

Mine is way better and has higher fiber.

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gwangung  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:09:04pm

re: #34 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That roughly 30% of nutbags is nationwide. In any election there’s always that roughly 30% (28-33 is the spread I’ve seen mostly) who are delusional, demented or brainwashed by bibles, guns and crosses [flaming or otherwise]).

Crazification factor.

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darthstar  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:09:28pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:13:56pm

Tomorrow is September 1st. That means it’s time to start thinking about Hardley Strictly Bluegrass - a free three day music festival with 5 or 6 stages in Golden Gate Park - about 200,000 people attend each day (it was much more fun when only about 50K showed up and you could move from stage to stage easily). Anyway, here’s the site if you happen to be in the Bay Area at the end of September. (Park downtown - weekend rates - and take the N-Judah muni to the park.)

hardlystrictlybluegrass.com

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DodgerFan1988  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:14:14pm
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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:18:44pm

re: #39 darthstar

Mastodon

Space Madness. Classic stuff.

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Belafon  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:18:47pm

re: #41 DodgerFan1988

Is there some strange Jewish sect that people like her and Ben Shapiro are members of?

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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:20:58pm

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:22:14pm

re: #43 Belafon

Is there some strange Jewish sect that people like her and Ben Shapiro are members of?

Yes, it’s called the “Kill Us Last Club.”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:24:24pm

re: #39 darthstar

Chicken Pot Chicken Pot Chicken Pot Pie

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Belafon  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:26:18pm
A Mesquite man has been arrested on multiple charges of breaching the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

Philip Anderson, 28, faces felony counts of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding, as well as misdemeanor counts of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia.

Anderson was arrested in Mesquite on Tuesday and was expected in court for his first appearance Wednesday. It was not immediately clear whether he had a lawyer who could comment on his behalf.

According to federal authorities, Anderson attended the “Stop the Steal” rally on the National Mall and followed the crowd as it made its way to the Capitol, where Congress was preparing to certify Joe Biden’s victory over then-President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

Wearing a Trump-branded sweatshirt, blue jeans and a red hat, Anderson repeatedly riled up the crowd by speaking into a megaphone and urging them to occupy the Capitol, authorities said.

dallasnews.com

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austin_blue  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:39:06pm

It’s been 4 1/2 hours since the mass shooting up at the Arboretum and info is slllloooowww to come out. They have confirmed that the shooter and one target victim are dead, and that that the critically injured transport was apparently a second target of the shooter.

But they are sitting on the info of who was the shooter, who was shot, and where it took place.

I think we may well know the names of these people when the info is released.

By the way, saw Barbie today.

OMG, it was fantastic. Props to Greta Gerwig. She grabbed it and made it hers.

Just fantastically entertaining and a feat of modern movie making. 4 1/2 stars, pushing hard to 5.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:43:49pm

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Egregious Philbin  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:43:54pm

re: #46 GlutenFreeJesus

I thought I was the only one who remembered that. Great episode with David Cross pretending to be mentally impaired…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:45:41pm

Bsky growth the past two days has been pretty good, above 2%.

I just hope they can keep out the spammers and the bots.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:46:36pm

Thinking I should go watch the Wheel of Time season premier on Prime.

I wonder how this season will be received, after all the negative criticisms of season 1 by the usual crowd.

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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:51:04pm

re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I just hope they can keep out the spammers and the bots.

Giphy

The moment it goes public it’s fucked no matter what. Humans generally suck.

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jaunte  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:51:26pm

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Captain Ron  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:53:15pm
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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:54:43pm

re: #54 jaunte

Bluesky will be Invite Only for the time being. Basic internet infrastructure isn’t even in place yet.

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darthstar  Aug 31, 2023 • 7:55:10pm

re: #42 teleskiguy

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Space Madness. Classic stuff.

I can honestly say I’ve watched Ren & Stimpy exactly zero times in my life. I’ve seen clips of the skits with them online and they do have a lot of the Tom & Jerry energy or maybe Beavis & Butthead doing Tom & Jerry, but I was never stoned enough or in the right place where it was on that I watched that segment intentionally.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:06:02pm

re: #56 teleskiguy

Bluesky will be Invite Only for the time being. Basic internet infrastructure isn’t even in place yet.

According to Google, Bluesky has 823,000 users and Threads has 128 million. Both need more features, but for now it appears that Threads can handle the volume. Supposedly Twitter-X now has 540 million users — though I am highly skeptical of any information provided by Musk.

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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:11:40pm

re: #57 darthstar

I can honestly say I’ve watched Ren & Stimpy exactly zero times in my life. I’ve seen clips of the skits with them online and they do have a lot of the Tom & Jerry energy or maybe Beavis & Butthead doing Tom & Jerry, but I was never stoned enough or in the right place where it was on that I watched that segment intentionally.

My Dad had Ren & Stimpy parties when new episodes aired on MTV, which we had because M&D were willing to pay extra for the “good” cable TV stuff. We had a big screen TV, the only one for a few blocks around us. So the Ren & Stimpy events (6 PM on Friday nights) were raucous events with adults and children alike watching and laughing at one of the most absurd cartoons ever made. I loved it. Dad loved it even more.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:13:13pm

Seems to be quite a trend and it needs to come to a screeching halt.

A Climate Activist Slathered Pink Paint Over a Painting at the National Gallery of Canada, then Glued Himself to the Floor

Perp pried off the floor and arrested. Painting, Tom Thomson’s Northern River (1915), not damaged.
These goofballs claim they do this to “raise awareness” of the climate crisis. All they are really doing is helping Big Oil and its many accomplices portray climate “alarmists” as arrogant, irrational, self absorbed nihilists and weirdos, the only defense they have in the face of increasingly obvious facts.

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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:13:59pm

Ren & Stimpy - Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen anthem

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piratedan  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:15:29pm

re: #61 teleskiguy

at least you didn’t go for the “don’t pee on the electric fence” game advertisement :-)

STEEEEMPY, YU IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!

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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:18:57pm

re: #62 piratedan

Powdered Toast Man (voiced by Frank Zappa at one point) would prevent me from such dangers.

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austin_blue  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:36:14pm

re: #48 austin_blue

It’s been 4 1/2 hours since the mass shooting up at the Arboretum and info is slllloooowww to come out. They have confirmed that the shooter and one target victim are dead, and that that the critically injured transport was apparently a second target of the shooter.

But they are sitting on the info of who was the shooter, who was shot, and where it took place.

I think we may well know the names of these people when the info is released.

Yeah, none of the local 10:00 news shows had anything new on the 5:00 mass shooting at the high-end retail center in NW Austin.

Curiouser and curiouser…

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darthstar  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:43:16pm

re: #59 teleskiguy

Oh, it was on MTV…no wonder I never saw it. I stopped watching that channel after ZZ Top’s last video.

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vgranucci  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:46:26pm

re: #29 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:51:01pm

A reminder — if someone still needs one, an invite code:

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silverdolphin  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:56:31pm

Debris Shows Interstellar Meteor Was Faster, Tougher and Had 1000 Times More Uranium Than Rocks in Our Solar System

This is going to be fun. Its speed was too great to have originated in the Solar system, traveling at 60 km/second. And it maintained its integrity to such an extent before exploding to indicate a tensile strength greater than any other meterorite.

And uranium, beryllium and lanthanum levels 300-900 times greater than expected. A quick search pulled this up:

Nuclear fuel containing beryllium oxide as well as uranium oxide has been shown to be longer lasting, more efficient and safer than conventional nuclear fuels, an ongoing research project claims.

SO if Oumaumau was a spaceship, perhaps this is a fuel pod of some sort.Of course, reality is likely that neither is that interesting. Lots of peer review and further work.

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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:56:53pm

re: #65 darthstar

Oh, it was on MTV

At first. After these TV parties my Dad put on months later Ren & Stimpy ended up being broadcasted on Nickelodeon too. It was the 90s. “It’s a cartoon. Put it on the kids’ network.” Almost halcyon times in retrospect…

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Targetpractice  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:58:58pm

re: #69 teleskiguy

At first. After these TV parties my Dad put on months later Ren & Stimpy ended up being broadcasted on Nickelodeon too. It was the 90s. “It’s a cartoon. Put it on the kids’ network.” Almost halcyon times in retrospect…

That’s where I remember seeing it, as part of Nick’s Saturday night block “Snick,” alongside the memorable “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”

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piratedan  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:59:30pm

re: #69 teleskiguy

I wonder if Ren & Stimpy got their test drive on MTV’s old Liquid Television, seems to be about the right speed, I’m pretty sure that Beavis and Butthead, Daria and Aeon Flux all got their training wheels there…

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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 8:59:54pm

re: #70 Targetpractice

That’s where I remember seeing it, as part of Nick’s Saturday night block “Snick,” alongside the memorable “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”

You are speaking my language.

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wrenchwench  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:07:27pm

Mastodon

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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:12:16pm

🎶 DON’T WHIZZ ON THE ELECTRIC FENCE 🎶

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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:18:13pm

SNICK. This is a TV thing us older Millennials who had TV at the time know as fun stuff. It aired after dark. It was weird horror and comedy. Me and Targetpractice stayed up weekend after weekend checking this shit out as children. Nickelodeon.

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darthstar  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:18:21pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:18:27pm

re: #69 teleskiguy

At first. After these TV parties my Dad put on months later Ren & Stimpy ended up being broadcasted on Nickelodeon too. It was the 90s. “It’s a cartoon. Put it on the kids’ network.” Almost halcyon times in retrospect…

That was back when Nickelodeon was the edgy channel. There was a whole TV show about that time period, which ended when SpongeBob appeared and executives figured out they could make money on nice. It’s called the “The Orange Years.” Worth watching.

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Belafon  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:20:25pm

You Can’t Do That On Television was a personal favorite of mine.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:24:47pm

Your city with too many police and too much time on its hands:

New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns (AP)

If you’re in your backyard, smile.

NEW YORK (AP) — Those attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may notice an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police surveillance drone.

The New York City police department plans to pilot the unmanned aircrafts in response to complaints about large gatherings, including private events, over Labor Day weekend, officials announced Thursday.

“If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our assets to go up and go check on the party,” Kaz Daughtry, the assistant NYPD Commissioner, said at a press conference.

The plan drew immediate backlash from privacy and civil liberties advocates, raising questions about whether such drone use violated existing laws for police surveillance

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:25:37pm

re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Keeping the spirit of the slave patrol alive in New York.

The move was announced during a security briefing focused on J’ouvert, an annual Caribbean festival marking the end of slavery that brings thousands of revelers and a heavy police presence to the streets of Brooklyn. Daughtry said the drones would respond to “non-priority and priority calls” beyond the parade route.

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wrenchwench  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:25:41pm

Hatchlings! Snek.

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Mastodon

Cute, but not hatchlings. Those sneks are ovoviviparous (born alive, but no placenta).

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darthstar  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:29:12pm

Okay…bedtime for me. Play nice everyone. Slava Ukraini.

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teleskiguy  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:29:38pm

re: #78 Belafon

You Can’t Do That On Television was a personal favorite of mine.

When I was born I already had two siblings - one from Dad’s previous marriage and one from Mom’s previous marriage, both sisters. Mom’s kid was around me the most and I can remember her and I watching “You Can’t Do That On Television” episodes on VHS. The green slime…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:31:17pm

Your city on libertarian dystopia.

Billionaires Are Reportedly Trying to Start a New City Near San Francisco (Futurism)

A billionaire-backed company has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land outside of San Francisco with the apparent intent of constructing an entirely new city, Insider and The New York Times are reporting.

The mysterious firm, dubbed Flannery Associates, has so far spent an eyewatering $800 million on mostly undeveloped ranch land in California’s Solano County, court documents obtained by Insider show. And it hasn’t done so alone, with the venture counting the likes of Laurene Powell Jobs, widow to Apple founder Steve Jobs, LinkedIn cofounder and “PayPal Mafia” alum Reid Hoffman, Sequoia Capital chair Michael Moritz, and — who else? — the ever-reliable Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as investors, among others.

Land records and correspondence show that Flannery Associates has been scooping up land for the city project since about 2017, and though very little is known about the plans for the city, Moritz, in a 2017 email to a prospective investor obtained the the NYT, reportedly described the utopian vision as a walkable, clean energy-powered, job-generating metropolis home to tens of thousands of residents, where new forms of urban government could be experimented with. If that’s not a tech billionaire dream, we don’t know what is.

“Let me know if this tickles your fancy,” Moritz wrote in the email, according to the NYT.

Though the company has been raising money and gathering land for some time now, it’s flown largely under the radar. Congressman John Garamendi, one of two Democrats who represents the surrounding region, told the NYT that he’d been trying to get to the bottom of who was behind the shady firm for the better part of four years now, albeit to no avail. (more)

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Targetpractice  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:32:09pm

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Your city on libertarian dystopia.

Billionaires Are Reportedly Trying to Start a New City Near San Francisco (Futurism

Galt’s Gulch rides again.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:34:18pm

re: #85 Targetpractice

Galt’s Gulch rides again.

One of the people involved in this is whinging about homeless people in San Francisco. The project also sued landowners, complaining of price inflation of land where they want to build. (That’s peak libertarianism: It’s only okay if we do it.)

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Belafon  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:37:08pm

re: #83 teleskiguy

When I was born I already had two siblings - one from Dad’s previous marriage and one from Mom’s previous marriage, both sisters. Mom’s kid was around me the most and I can remember her and I watching “You Can’t Do That On Television” episodes on VHS. The green slime…

The slime is still around, even though that show and a lot of stuff from that era has faded from history. People still get slimed at the Nick awards shows.

Some other shows from that era:
Rugrats
Rocket Power (where I first heard “It’s your birthday” to mean that was awesome).
Aaahh!!, Real Monsters
Keenan & Kel
Cat-Dog

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piratedan  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:43:43pm

re: #87 Belafon

I was always quite fond of Doug and the awesome pooch Porkchop. Saturday’s were great with both Bill Nye The Science Guy and Beakman’s World

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wrenchwench  Aug 31, 2023 • 9:53:00pm

Mastodon

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EstebanTornado1963  Aug 31, 2023 • 10:24:42pm

Somebody needs a slap

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wrenchwench  Aug 31, 2023 • 10:43:13pm

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Aug 31, 2023 • 10:45:37pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 31, 2023 • 10:48:32pm

In the western Pacific, Super Typhoon Saola still has 120 knot windspeeds.

The prognostication is unchanged: The storm will rake along the Chinese coast, weaken, and directly strike the city of Hong Kong with 80 knot winds.

Afterward, it will turn and strike Hainan Island as a tropical storm, then turn back to the east as a tropical depression.

Image: wp0923.gif (JTWC)

Further east, Typhoon Haikui will drive straight toward Taiwan as it strengthens to 105 knots near landfall. It will then go across the island and the strait, striking China at around 65 knots before going inland and dissipating.

Image: wp1023.gif (JTWC)

Much further south and east, Tropical Storm Kirogi is expected to gradually weaken as it moves north and west, striking the very southern tip of Japan as a tropical depression in a few days.

Image: wp1123.gif

Moving east, the Central Pacific Hurricane Center has a tropical wave a long way south of Hawai’i. Disturbance One is given a 20% chance of development in a week as it moves north-west a long way from land.

nhc.noaa.gov

Moving further east, the National Hurricane Center predicts a tropical wave will develop off the south coast of Mexico, with a 30% chance of development as it moves west and north and away from North America.

The Atlantic deserves a whole page for what’s going on there.

Idalia has now been declared a post tropical depression. It is expected to intensify as it travels south and east, then north and east, becoming a tropical storm as it approaches Bermuda. Monday, the tropical storm is expected to switch to the north-west and take general aim at New England by the end of the period.

Post-Tropical Depression Idalia Tracking Chart (NHC)

Hurricane Franklin is still a thing. It is north-east of Bermuda, moving north-east. It is expected to become a post-tropical hurricane and gradually weaken to a post-tropical depression Tuesday as it turns toward Iceland.

Tropical Storm Jose is a minimal tropical storm. It is moving north and is expected to dissipate or be absorbed into Franklin in about a day or so.

Tropical Storm Franklin Tracking Chart (NHC)

Disturbance One is south-west of the Cabo Verde Islands. It has a 90% chance of becoming a short-lived tropical storm as it moves generally north-west.

Disturbance Two is meandering around south-west of Jose. It has a 70% chance of becoming a tropical depression within two days.

Disturbance Three is expected to move off the coast of Senegal this weekend. By the middle of next week the system has a 40% chance of developing into a tropical cyclone in the central Atlantic as it moves in the general direction of the Leeward Islands.

7-Day Graphical Tropical Outlook

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Captain Ron  Aug 31, 2023 • 11:00:09pm
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Captain Ron  Aug 31, 2023 • 11:03:11pm
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silverdolphin  Aug 31, 2023 • 11:24:14pm

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Your city on libertarian dystopia.

Billionaires Are Reportedly Trying to Start a New City Near San Francisco (Futurism)

From what I have read about this, much of the land is not zoned for what they want to do. So they are going to have to spend a lot to get politicians on board. And just what will this city provide for any sort of economy to keep people paying mortgages, etc. WHere are they going to get the water from? And, since they abhor socialism, how will support needs like fire dpartments, be paid for?

It reminds oe of EPCOT which was going to contain a real city of the future. Even there in Florida, Disney was never able to get this really going.

I think the reality will be much more complex than they think. Unless this is a scam and the real winners get out early.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 1, 2023 • 12:08:26am

re: #97 silverdolphin

From what I have read about this, much of the land is not zoned for what they want to do. So they are going to have to spend a lot to get politicians on board. And just what will this city provide for any sort of economy to keep people paying mortgages, etc. WHere are they going to get the water from? And, since they abhor socialism, how will support needs like fire dpartments, be paid for?

It reminds oe of EPCOT which was going to contain a real city of the future. Even there in Florida, Disney was never able to get this really going.

I think the reality will be much more complex than they think. Unless this is a scam and the real winners get out early.

The last part.

Like that Galt’s Gulch project in Chile. Sold millions of dollars in land. Zero water rights.

Buyers purchased the land without any sort of investigation into what they were buying. When they found out they were being scammed, they wanted to sue the “developers” for their money back. Chile said “nope,” you wanted a libertarian paradise, you got one. Good luck getting your money back

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 1, 2023 • 12:15:34am

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Galt’s Gulch, Chile (Goes to RationalWiki)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 1, 2023 • 2:07:01am

Why libertarian cities fail (Adam Lee at OnlySky, April 6, 2023)

In my Atlas Shrugged series (goes to Daylight Atheism), I mentioned how Ayn Rand holds an attitude best described as “cornucopianism.” She treats every natural resource as inexhaustible. Nothing ever gets scarce or runs out, so nothing needs to be conserved.

When the narrative moves to Galt’s Gulch, a secret hideout for the world’s greatest capitalists, the paradox gets sharper. Their logging, mining and heavy industry don’t create any pollution or leave any mark on the beautiful natural landscape. What’s more, conveniences like roads and coffee and fresh fruit appear as if materializing from nowhere, despite there being no obvious way to produce them.

Now—if you were of a libertarian bent yourself—you might object that this is a work of fiction, stripped down to the essentials to make a philosophical point. You might argue that libertarians know perfectly well that in the real world, natural resources aren’t infinite. You might say all of those things.

With that in mind, let’s talk about Rio Verde Foothills.

(more)

Rio Verde Foothills is in the desert in Maricopa County, Ariz., so you can see where this libertarian paradise is going.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 1, 2023 • 3:43:24am

re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Your city with too many police and too much time on its hands:

New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns (AP)

If you’re in your backyard, smile.

(more)

This strikes me as serious potential 4th Amendment violations.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 1, 2023 • 3:46:34am

Damn it is September already. I always get a little anxious this time of year, school starting and all. I have posted this song here before, and it always brings a smile to my face, and I hope it brings a smile to your face as well.

Noah Kahan, Post Malone - Dial Drunk (Official Lyric Video)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 1, 2023 • 3:50:43am

and of course

Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends [Official Music Video]

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 1, 2023 • 3:52:50am

re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This strikes me as serious potential 4th Amendment violations.

Eric Adams and the NYPD don’t care.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 1, 2023 • 3:56:48am

re: #38 gwangung

Crazification factor.

That was AWESOME. Thank you!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 1, 2023 • 3:57:23am

if you look at the RCP polls:

realclearpolitics.com

… one can see a few things that stand out:
1) Trump’s lead is undiminished;
2) The Swamy post-debate bump is stablizing;
3) DeSantis is in a DeDeath march;
4) Pence and Haley seem to be competing for the same audience, as their totals add up to around 10% or a bit less, consistently, they just swap among themselves who leads who;
5) If the RNC sets the bar at 3% for the next “debate”, the field on stage will be considerably smaller, consisting of only those above.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 1, 2023 • 3:57:33am

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Eric Adams and the NYPD don’t care.

I can understand using drones to check up if there have been calls or other indications of some disturbance or violation of the law, but just checking on people (and by that we mean blacks and minorities) congregating in backyards and rooftops, that seems to constitute a serious violation of privacy.

The “expectation of privacy” as defined in law did not really have a vertical component to it as there were no police drones (or even helicopters) in wide use when it was first adopted.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 1, 2023 • 3:59:06am

re: #106 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

if you look at the RCP polls:

why look at the polls or the debates? If DJT runs, he wins, hands down, and will have the nomination locked up before the primaries are over.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 1, 2023 • 3:59:22am

I’m rather increased in my belief that the GOP money broker$ are going to put their $$$ behind Haley.

She’s the only one left who is not whacky, or too dull (DeSantis, Pence).

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Decatur Deb  Sep 1, 2023 • 3:59:25am

re: #107 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Barrage balloons.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 1, 2023 • 4:00:25am

(3:52)

Neil Diamond - September Morn (Audio)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 1, 2023 • 4:02:24am

re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because there is still a chance that Trump will be convicted of a felony before the ballots for the real election (November) are set in stone.

If that happens the RNC will be stuck. If Trump has just one felony conviction, Trump may find himself disqualified for being President, at least in some states.

Thus there is a chance that the broker$ will force the issue and the RNC will make a nomination that puts someone else on ballots besides Trump.

And this of course also means a Trump/Smarmy ticket running as independent or being the nominees for smaller parties (like AIP or Libertarian).

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 1, 2023 • 4:05:21am

re: #54 jaunte

The thing Bluesky needs to attract the kinds of accounts that bring in a ton of people is video. Rex Chapman, Butiguden (sic)… All those positive, cute, sweet videos. That’s a big one.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 1, 2023 • 4:05:37am

re: #110 Decatur Deb

Barrage balloons.

Someone in the comments suggested this is the time to teach your children the joy of potato guns.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 1, 2023 • 4:08:28am

re: #114 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Gotham Falconry Services LLC.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 4:09:10am

There are a lot of word combos there. I’m lucky.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 1, 2023 • 4:16:44am

🏌 🦩

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 1, 2023 • 4:18:41am

So I went to watch the Wheel of Time season premier… and I stopped near the end of the “previously” section.

It just doesn’t make sense to me.

By which I mean, there is not really a story here.

It’s more like a collage of nifty fantasy ideas.

I know the hard-core book lovers really disliked season 1. The Robert Jordan fans were throwing tantrums the likes of which were only out-done by the Tolkien fans over RoP.

I tried to read Jordan’s first WoT book… gave up on the first page. Tried an audiobook of the same… gave up after a few minutes. I found Jordan’s writing to be rather blah, unlike Tolkien’s.

But the book stuff aside, the Amazon series I watched when it came out, found it ok, certainly well enough done to not be an eye-sore. Like so many high budget shows these days, the videography is good, and sets adequate to very good, the costumes fine.

WoT failed bigly, though, in not feeling “lived-in”, as critics like to say. WoT was too clean (hence the jokes about the OxyClean guys.)

But even with the overly-clean look, I think the real problem is that it is not one story.

Season one was a melange, a kind of table setting that long-running series may do in their first season (see Babylon 5 or Breaking Bad for good examples of such).

I think what I found problematic is that the table as it was being set was not being set with items I necessarily want to eat.

The romances hinted at… fell flat. The actors chemistry with each other did not convince me.

The magic was … really a kind of religion. Ok, so all religious miracles are magic, but not all magic is religious.

It seemed to me that Amazon’s show tried to make a big religious epic (like LOTR)… but there is a problem with the religion.

It’s not really there.

That is, the characters on the screen, the supporting characters, the masses of extras, aren’t practicing it.

Once again, the world did not feel lived-in. The belief systems were not being lived.

Oh well, I’ll still probably force myself to watch it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 1, 2023 • 4:25:30am

So it turns out if your an expert in one field, but you don’t consult experts in other fields which would intersect with your research, you can have bad results.

For example, it is known by cardiologists when conducting heart-bypass operations, the surgery can induce infections in the brain. As that is not particularly desirable, a bunch of cardiologists decided “gee, what if we inject antibiotics into the brain before we start our procedures, bypassing the blood-brain barrier to get the antibiotics where they’re needed?”

What they didn’t do: Consult either pharmacists or neurologists before conducting the experiment. While the patients consented to the experiment, they weren’t told about all the problems because the cardiologists didn’t know them.

Penicillin (the drug used) and other antibiotics can trigger seizures in people with epilepsy because they interfere with anticonvulsants, or kick-start epilepsy in people who never had it.

It turns out they caused a bunch of people to develop epilepsy with this experiment.

This problem was originally discovered in 1966 by American neurologists studying rats. They published a peer-reviewed paper at the time.

This year a bunch of Polish cardiologists, knowing none of this, decided to try that, with predictable results.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 1, 2023 • 4:34:50am

The Nebraska Huskers football team put out an epilepsy-inducing advert twelve hours ago. I got five seconds in before I closed the window.

(0:90)

“IT’S GAME DAY!” | 2023 Season Kickoff Hype Video

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 1, 2023 • 4:38:20am

It calms down after the intro if you just skip past fifteen seconds

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 1, 2023 • 4:51:51am

re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It calms down after the intro if you just skip past fifteen seconds

Much like the Huskers defence.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 1, 2023 • 4:53:37am

I still have an invite code from BlueSky if anyone would like it or knows someone who would benefit from it.

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By the way I WON THE LOTTO yesterday! Checked my 2x2 when I was buying $5 / gal. gas returning from Sterling.

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darthstar  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:05:14am

Flooding in Guadalajara…

Mastodon

Mastodon

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darthstar  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:05:57am

That first car has its wipers on but I don’t think they’re helping.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:05:59am

Ai-Generated Image Of “Salmon Swimming Down A River”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:08:21am

re: #126 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Ai-Generated Image Of “Salmon Swimming Down A River”

Sockeye Salmon or Chinook?

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darthstar  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:18:04am

re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Sockeye Salmon or Chinook?

Based on the color I’d say farmed Atlantic salmon.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:18:29am

re: #126 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Ai-Generated Image Of “Salmon Swimming Down A River”

[Embedded content]

I generally don’t upvote AI content, but this is comedy gold. I’ll allow it.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:19:19am

re: #40 darthstar

Tomorrow is September 1st. That means it’s time to start thinking about Hardley Strictly Bluegrass - a free three day music festival with 5 or 6 stages in Golden Gate Park - about 200,000 people attend each day (it was much more fun when only about 50K showed up and you could move from stage to stage easily). Anyway, here’s the site if you happen to be in the Bay Area at the end of September. (Park downtown - weekend rates - and take the N-Judah muni to the park.)

hardlystrictlybluegrass.com

Days Inn in Meadville up this way would have a weekend bluegrass festival (haven’t been in a while). It was a great time. They would hold it in February. Wife and I would get a room, a case or 3 of beer, and just wander the halls. We hardly ever went into the main stage area. Would just wander the halls and pop into rooms with the door open and music coming out. Give out a couple beers and sit and listen to whoever was in there playing. People came in from all over, Ohio, PA, NY, WV. A good time was had by all.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:21:16am

re: #40 darthstar

Tomorrow is September 1st. That means it’s time to start thinking about Hardley Strictly Bluegrass - a free three day music festival with 5 or 6 stages in Golden Gate Park -

I have seen it on streaming and it is enough to make me terribly homesick for the Good Old USofA.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:23:30am

9 months 29 days to retirement…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:25:50am

re: #132 Joe Bacon ✅

9 months 29 days to retirement…

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William Lewis  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:26:40am

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Your city on libertarian dystopia.

Billionaires Are Reportedly Trying to Start a New City Near San Francisco (Futurism)

Night City anyone? They better watch out for corporate armies with nukes! Cyberpunk Franchise

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:27:04am

re: #132 Joe Bacon ✅

9 months 29 days to retirement…

Not until you personally see to it my Social Security payments are started. /s

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TarHellion  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:30:13am

Back-to-back Beagles!

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:30:59am

re: #132 Joe Bacon ✅

9 months 29 days to retirement…

I can go now, but 52 is too young to retire, and I can’t collect my pension (without penalty) until I am 55. I love what I do and will stick it out until my position becomes untenable. Additionally, I don’t know what inflation is going to do, and this is my last high three years.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:33:23am

re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Sockeye Salmon or Chinook?

Filet o’

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:35:22am

NSFW

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:37:54am

Right now I am 61 and my accountant and orthopedic doctor expect me to go back to work full time. I can tell you that this accident has taken the wind out of my sails. I still have to pay off a mortgage under $ 20k. This is the first time in my life that I have been injured and I am at loss as to what I should do.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:38:22am

“Outed”, not yet arrested for anything

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Weaselone  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:43:50am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sounds like they didn’t even bother to do a basic literature search

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:49:48am
Operatives for Republicans in the Michigan House of Representatives are urging their members to call a paid family leave proposal by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer “summer break for adults,” according to a talking-points memo obtained by The Messenger.

right because we just sit home with our feet up collecting that fat paycheck

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:54:54am

re: #143 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

right because we just sit home with our feet up collecting that fat paycheck

Even if that is what we did, this is a problem… why? “Work ‘till you drop” is such a corporatist attitude. People need relief from stress, and studies have shown that far and away, the #1 stress in most people’s lives is their jobs. There’s immense pressure to perform, because our job is our literal lifeline; without it, we’re two steps away from the homeless shelter. Actually, the government mandating paid no-excuse vacation time for all full- AND part-time employees would probably do wonders for productivity.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:57:55am

re: #140 PhillyPretzel ✅

Right now I am 61 and my accountant and orthopedic doctor expect me to go back to work full time. I can tell you that this accident has taken the wind out of my sails. I still have to pay off a mortgage under $ 20k. This is the first time in my life that I have been injured and I am at loss as to what I should do.

Yes, I started to notice at that age that the time needed for me to fully recover was a lot longer.

I am only just recovering from a summer flu I got in late July.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:58:31am

re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 1, 2023 • 5:59:30am

re: #146 Joe Bacon ✅

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Nojay UK  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:00:53am

The UK aircraft carrier HMS Prince Of Wales is leaving Portsmouth, heading for the east coast of the US to practice F-35B operations.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:02:17am

re: #140 PhillyPretzel ✅

Right now I am 61 and my accountant and orthopedic doctor expect me to go back to work full time. I can tell you that this accident has taken the wind out of my sails. I still have to pay off a mortgage under $ 20k. This is the first time in my life that I have been injured and I am at loss as to what I should do.

You are close to old enough to take early retirement, if you can afford to take the lower social security payment for retiring at age 62, and you can get health insurance. You may want to look at what your monthly social security check would be at ssa.gov

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Dave In Austin  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:03:02am
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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:03:45am

re: #141 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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“Outed”, not yet arrested for anything

I read that there is no evidence he entered the Capitol.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:05:20am

re: #149 No Malarkey!

I got a mailing from them the other day. It said I would get $ 1199 a month if I started at my 62nd birthday.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:06:38am

re: #150 Dave In Austin

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The previous two months of job creation were revised down a total of 110,000 jobs, clear evidence of a cooling economy, and the U6 unemployment rate jumped up to 7.1% as more people entered the workforce. Things are looking good for a non-recessionary cooldown, and the Fed can probably pause interest rate increases.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:10:39am

re: #152 PhillyPretzel ✅

I got a mailing from them the other day. It said I would get $ 1199 a month if I started at my 62nd birthday.

So, depending on your level of savings and access to health insurance (you could probably get a free or virtually free policy through healthcare.gov) you can determine if that is enough for you to retire on or not. Obviously, you don’t have to tell us.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:27:27am

re: #151 No Malarkey!

I read that there is no evidence he entered the Capitol.

Right
Just a pig who doesn’t support the blue. To their face

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:28:21am

re: #152 PhillyPretzel ✅

I got a mailing from them the other day. It said I would get $ 1199 a month if I started at my 62nd birthday.

I’ve started drawing mine in August. $1350.00 a month. Still working part time at BK to make ends meet.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:28:27am

re: #144 Nerdy Fish

Even if that is what we did, this is a problem… why? “Work ‘till you drop” is such a corporatist attitude. People need relief from stress, and studies have shown that far and away, the #1 stress in most people’s lives is their jobs. There’s immense pressure to perform, because our job is our literal lifeline; without it, we’re two steps away from the homeless shelter. Actually, the government mandating paid no-excuse vacation time for all full- AND part-time employees would probably do wonders for productivity.

Fucking A, THIS!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:28:43am

re: #155 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Right
Just a pig who doesn’t support the blue. To their face

He supports them if they are beating up on the brown and black, just not on redneck whites.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:32:59am

For the second straight month, the prime age employment ratio remains at 80.9%, the highest level since April 2001, so it’s probably about as high as it can get.

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:37:34am

re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Much like the Huskers defence.

These aren’t your Tom Osborne Huskers

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:37:35am

re: #140 PhillyPretzel ✅

Taking SS early will reduce the monthly payment.

But I did it anyway.

Maybe you’ll find it more useful to have the money now than wait until you’re 67.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:38:18am

I’m 69 this year and waited to draw full benefit and using UHC for Medicare.

I sat out and made knives for a year and fucked around. I found out I was happy to go back to work when a friend asked if I would help put these Data Centers back in order.

It’s really nice working somewhere under your own terms. No more Corp Reindeer games. I can speak my truth to what I see, and Fishheads if they don’t like it.

One thing, if you are going to continue to work or go back to work while drawing SS. Have your taxes withheld accordingly or you risk getting bit at years end.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:40:04am

Sixty three years ago, a pressing concern:

1960: What’s in a HAGGIS? | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

..

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:40:48am

DeSantis is such a loser. He’s just hanging on now, hoping the DOJ or something takes out Trump, who will be the GOP nominee if ambulatory, because Trump has to keep running to pay his legal bills.

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:41:45am

re: #161 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Taking SS early will reduce the monthly payment.

But I did it anyway.

Maybe you’ll find it more useful to have the money now than wait until you’re 67.

I took it when I was 67-1/2 but I was fortunate in that I didn’t really need it. The thing I like about taking it now is that SSA deducts medicare payments so I don’t have to worry about cutting a check for that (we’ll skip the discussion about how friggin’ expensive it is).

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:42:18am

re: #162 Dave In Austin

That is one reason why I have asked my accountant about my current situation.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:42:24am

re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Because there is still a chance that Trump will be convicted of a felony before the ballots for the real election (November) are set in stone.

If that happens the RNC will be stuck. If Trump has just one felony conviction, Trump may find himself disqualified for being President, at least in some states.

Thus there is a chance that the broker$ will force the issue and the RNC will make a nomination that puts someone else on ballots besides Trump.

And this of course also means a Trump/Smarmy ticket running as independent or being the nominees for smaller parties (like AIP or Libertarian).

What states? Is there a single state that bars a felon from running for President? Eugene Debs ran from prison.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:45:53am

re: #167 Hecuba’s daughter

What states? Is there a single state that bars a felon from running for President? Eugene Debs ran from prison.

Not a law, but it is possible that some state Secretaries of State will 14th Amendment him if he is convicted of charges related to 1/6. Hell, some of them may try it even if he isn’t convicted.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:46:06am

re: #167 Hecuba’s daughter

What states? Is there a single state that bars a felon from running for President? Eugene Debs ran from prison.

It’s more what he is convicted of. If it’s for a crime that is arguably “insurrection” Trump is disqualified by the 14th Amendment.

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William Lewis  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:47:26am

Last time I looked at my social security numbers (I’ll be 60 on 9/30) I’ll get less than 1/2 of what I make now and I don’t really make enough now. I do not expect to retire or if I do, it will be to move into one of the 3 Old Soldiers Homes here in Wisconsin (Chippewa Falls, King and Union Grove - CF is really a Nursing home level one but the other two are actually retirement villages. King is set up much like an Army post from the Interwar era. Really quite cool if your health is decent.)

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:48:22am

re: #116 Nerdy Fish

There are a lot of word combos there. I’m lucky.

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Yep. I wasn’t so lucky — 5 for me.

Click to Reveal

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missing 2/4 — too many choices.
Group:3,4,5

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:48:36am

re: #167 Hecuba’s daughter

In PA the Sec of State is Al Schmidt. DT has called him everything from RINO to quite a few things that are unprintable. If there is a legal way to keep DT off the ballot he will try it.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:48:46am

re: #116 Nerdy Fish

There are a lot of word combos there. I’m lucky.

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Whoa, a rare 2/6

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darthstar  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:49:31am

Okay, here’s an electrical puzzler…

A few years ago I installed a smart thermostat (Ecobee - works with Alexa or a phone app or both). The old thermostat was just a slider where you set the temp and when the heat dropped to that point it kicked in until it got above the needle again.

When the electrician put in the smart thermostat (the old one had two wires…this one has more) he had to run a new cable through the attic crawl space and feed it down to the furnace in the garage and then connect all the colors to their appropriate places.

A while later, the condensation pump outside the furnace gave out and I had that replaced. The old one we just set back to the side between the furnace and water heater and I said I’d toss it later (this was about 18 months ago). Well, yesterday as I was cleaning things in the garage I decided to toss the old pump in the trash only to discover it was connected to a small red and small white wire that went into the furnace. Otherwise it was unplugged as the new sump took its place.

Well, when I disconnected those two little wires and threw it away, what happened? The new thermostat lost power. Somehow the old two-wire line is still feeding through the motor of that dead pump and back to the thermostat. I took it out of the trash, stripped some more of the red and white wire (thankfully I didn’t snip them at the base) and hooked it up. Still nothing. Then I realized the sump was upside down and needed the ‘float’ to be descended to engage the circuit.

So, how do I fix this? Twist the red and white wires together? They’re low voltage. But I’ve shorted shit out and burning the Carrier out would be an 8,000 dollar mistake.

Probably need to pay the electrician another $150 for a house visit.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:50:14am

Another Proud Boy’s sentencing hearing starts soon. DOJ is asking for 20 years, so I’m guessing he’ll get about ten.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:51:15am

Re: QR codes. Not just Atlanta. Be careful.

instagram.com

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:51:41am

re: #175 No Malarkey!

Another Proud Boy’s sentencing hearing starts soon. DOJ is asking for 20 years, so I’m guessing he’ll get about ten.

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That does seem to be the trend. I know that’s real hard time and all, but compared to what they should be getting, it feels aggravating that they’re getting off relatively light.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:51:58am

re: #168 Nerdy Fish

Not a law, but it is possible that some state Secretaries of State will 14th Amendment him if he is convicted of charges related to 1/6. Hell, some of them may try it even if he isn’t convicted.

At this point my opinion is that while the 14th Amendment disqualification is probably accurate it’s a ship that has sailed.

If it is attempted it will be heavily disruptive, litigated, and end up with the Supreme Court - with no idea how it will land since it’s the current Supreme Court. (And I can just imagine the whining by the media and Trumpists once a single locale removes him from the ballot much less multiple states. Would dwarf the 2020 efforts to claim the election was “stolen”.)

I think the country would be much better served by assuming the election will ramp up with Trump as the GOP nominee* and the best result will be an electoral result simply crushing Trump. Concentrate the efforts on voter turnout, preventing voter suppression, and keeping the election as honest as possible.

* - Since the GOP itself hasn’t the spine or guts to not make him the nominee.

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:52:23am

Twas totally terrible today!

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darthstar  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:53:36am

re: #178 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

If he’s convicted it should apply. Let it go straight to SCOTUS. It’ll be a lot less disruptive after he’s gone.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:54:46am

re: #174 darthstar

If you have a multimeter, check to see if the old pump was wired so that the two wires were shorted to begin with. I don’t think twisting the two wires together makes a difference. I know when I was installing the Ring to my dad’s house, the directions had me short the two wire out from the existing door bell power supple (at the chime on the wall). That is where the Ring got it’s power.

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:54:50am

re: #175 No Malarkey!

Another Proud Boy’s sentencing hearing starts soon. DOJ is asking for 20 years, so I’m guessing he’ll get about ten.

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LOL his shirt says FAFO!

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Markm1960  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:55:26am

re: #132 Joe Bacon ✅

9 months 29 days to retirement…

5 months here

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Unabogie  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:55:45am

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Why libertarian cities fail (Adam Lee at OnlySky, April 6, 2023)

(more)

Rio Verde Foothills is in the desert in Maricopa County, Ariz., so you can see where this libertarian paradise is going.

I had a teenage infatuation with Ayn Rand so I’m very familiar with her work. The major conceit in Atlas Shrugged is that rich people are basically propping up the world for lower forms of human beings, such that a guard is murdered and Rand goes into detail about how the character feels nothing for having killed him. “Atlas” is the wealthy, and if they were to “shrug” the world would come toppling down without them. Galt’s Gulch is shown as a place where genius, unfettered by the whingings of lesser minds, creates technology so amazing that they can thrive in isolation. It’s Lucy taking her ball and going home to create a new kind of steel.

But calling it a work of fiction skips the 40 page rant towards the end of the book when a character explains the whole worldview of Ayn Rand.

She meant it.

And I love to point out the irony that she ended her life dependent on social welfare.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:56:45am

re: #178 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

If it is attempted it will be heavily disruptive, litigated, and end up with the Supreme Court - with no idea how it will land since it’s the current Supreme Court. (And I can just imagine the whining by the media and Trumpists once a single locale removes him from the ballot much less multiple states. Would dwarf the 2020 efforts to claim the election was “stolen”.)

I agree with your point in general, except for the bolded. There have been a few consistent points about the Calvinball Court. One is that they place the religious rights of Christofascists above all. Another is that they have absolutely no intention of carrying water for Donald J. Trump personally. As far as they’re concerned, he can fuck all the way off. I think, if a properly adjudicated 14th Amendment challenge were to come before them - especially if it was on the back of a conviction in court - they’d probably uphold it.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:57:27am

re: #152 PhillyPretzel ✅

I got a mailing from them the other day. It said I would get $ 1199 a month if I started at my 62nd birthday.

I turn 62 in a week (Sept. 7th). I checked the site a couple weeks ago. I would be at $2009 a month (without my 2023 base pay raise I got at the beginning of the year figured in). I guess I will keep working for a year or 2 more and see then.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 6:59:47am

I approve this message; a majority of Kentucky voters rejected the proposed amendment eliminating abortion rights from the Kentucky Constitution.

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darthstar  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:04:35am

re: #181 Shropshire Slasher

If you have a multimeter, check to see if the old pump was wired so that the two wires were shorted to begin with. I don’t think twisting the two wires together makes a difference. I know when I was installing the Ring to my dad’s house, the directions had me short the two wire out from the existing door bell power supple (at the chime on the wall). That is where the Ring got it’s power.

My neighbor has one…I’ll check with him later today. Weird that the two wires went to the pump and it also has a grounded plug. Shorting it makes sense.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:05:45am
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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:07:13am

re: #152 PhillyPretzel ✅

I got a mailing from them the other day. It said I would get $ 1199 a month if I started at my 62nd birthday.

If you can, it’s worth waiting till you get your full benefit.

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jeffreyw  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:07:15am

Good morning!

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:09:16am

Pezzola defense files a motion which would only work if he was being sentenced by Fox News.

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BigPapa  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:10:54am

re: #174 darthstar

One of those other devices probably have a 24VAC power output that could power your thermostat. The original two wires worked with a mercury switch which was the old tsat.

Might be best to call an electrician or a low-voltage technician. I don’t want to advise further unless I’m there with a voltmeter and can check your architecture. I’d do it free of charge but the Trip Charge would be a little excessive.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:11:29am

re: #168 Nerdy Fish

Not a law, but it is possible that some state Secretaries of State will 14th Amendment him if he is convicted of charges related to 1/6. Hell, some of them may try it even if he isn’t convicted.

the 14a is curiously silent on whether litigation/adjudication in court is necessary or not

mighta been on purpose

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:13:07am

re: #194 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

the 14a is curiously silent on whether litigation/adjudication in court is necessary or not

mighta been on purpose

Yes, and absent a conviction, any 14A challenge to Trump specifically will be hotly contested. Personally, I believe that it should be sufficient to prove that 1) an insurrection happened, and 2) the individual in question materially participated (which would, at this stage, disqualify the former guy from holding any office), but you just know the MAGAts will froth at the mouth if some SoS disqualifies him before the final appeal of a criminal conviction is denied.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:15:09am

re: #179 sizzzzlerz

Twas totally terrible today!

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:15:43am

re: #178 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

At this point my opinion is that while the 14th Amendment disqualification is probably accurate it’s a ship that has sailed.

If it is attempted it will be heavily disruptive, litigated, and end up with the Supreme Court - with no idea how it will land since it’s the current Supreme Court. (And I can just imagine the whining by the media and Trumpists once a single locale removes him from the ballot much less multiple states. Would dwarf the 2020 efforts to claim the election was “stolen”.)

I think the country would be much better served by assuming the election will ramp up with Trump as the GOP nominee* and the best result will be an electoral result simply crushing Trump. Concentrate the efforts on voter turnout, preventing voter suppression, and keeping the election as honest as possible.

* - Since the GOP itself hasn’t the spine or guts to not make him the nominee.

Let me add that separate from this election the mechanics of the 14a should be worked out for the inevitable next time

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Unabogie  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:17:38am

re: #192 No Malarkey!

Pezzola defense files a motion which would only work if he was being sentenced by Fox News.

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They mention “Garrett Miller’s analysis” about protesters in Portland (citing the usual Fox News lies about what happened here in 2020) but all I could find under that name was this dude. If it’s the same guy, great work, Counselor.

dallasnews.com

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:18:52am

re: #195 Nerdy Fish

Yes, and absent a conviction, any 14A challenge to Trump specifically will be hotly contested. Personally, I believe that it should be sufficient to prove that 1) an insurrection happened, and 2) the individual in question materially participated (which would, at this stage, disqualify the former guy from holding any office), but you just know the MAGAts will froth at the mouth if some SoS disqualifies him before the final appeal of a criminal conviction is denied.

+1

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:19:42am

I’m writing down all your ages

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BigPapa  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:23:37am

re: #200 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I’m writing down all your ages

What-Ever! (rolls eyes)

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:23:44am

re: #195 Nerdy Fish

Yes, and absent a conviction, any 14A challenge to Trump specifically will be hotly contested. Personally, I believe that it should be sufficient to prove that 1) an insurrection happened, and 2) the individual in question materially participated (which would, at this stage, disqualify the former guy from holding any office), but you just know the MAGAts will froth at the mouth if some SoS disqualifies him before the final appeal of a criminal conviction is denied.

They will froth at the mouth if he is disqualified, regardless of the trial outcome. Their lord and master is being unjustly “persecuted” and any conviction is due to jurors who suffer from “TDS”.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:25:01am

re: #195 Nerdy Fish

Yes, and absent a conviction, any 14A challenge to Trump specifically will be hotly contested. Personally, I believe that it should be sufficient to prove that 1) an insurrection happened, and 2) the individual in question materially participated (which would, at this stage, disqualify the former guy from holding any office), but you just know the MAGAts will froth at the mouth if some SoS disqualifies him before the final appeal of a criminal conviction is denied.

If even one swing state disqualifies Trump from appearing on the ballot, it will become mathematically impossible for him to win. And we cannot survive as a democracy if he wins!

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:29:30am

re: #202 Hecuba’s daughter

They will froth at the mouth if he is disqualified, regardless of the trial outcome. Their lord and master is being unjustly “persecuted” and any conviction is due to jurors who suffer from “TDS”.

God, I’d forgotten how moronic the whole “BDS” movement was. There were a lot of valid reasons to dislike George W. Bush. Then, of course, there was actual derangement from the right when Obama was elected President, because how dare an uppity Black man presume to be in charge and try to make our lives better. Now, when all of us are suffering from various degrees of PTSD from the damage that Trump did to our country, they dare to call it “TDS.”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:33:06am

re: #175 No Malarkey!

Another Proud Boy’s sentencing hearing starts soon. DOJ is asking for 20 years, so I’m guessing he’ll get about ten.

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The way they’re going he’ll get 5. 🤬

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:33:57am

re: #205 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The way they’re going he’ll get 5. 🤬

Nahh, in these higher-end cases, they’ve been giving roughly half of what DOJ has been asking for. He’ll get 10.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:34:04am

re: #203 No Malarkey!

If even one swing state disqualifies Trump from appearing on the ballot, it will become mathematically impossible for him to win. And we cannot survive as a democracy if he wins!

No — it would take more than one swing state for him to lose, if he manages to win the other swing states. There is something seriously wrong with almost half the voters in this nation.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:34:46am

re: #200 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I’m writing down all your ages

Remember, BDay Sept. 7th. Expect cake and a nice cash donation.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:35:48am

re: #201 BigPapa

What-Ever! (rolls eyes)

I still thought you were taller

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:35:55am

re: #207 Hecuba’s daughter

No — it would take more than one swing state for him to lose, if he manages to win the other swing states. There is something seriously wrong with almost half the voters in this nation.

I take issue with that characterization. The percentage of voters who are Trump supporters is quite a bit lower than 50%. They hold outsize power mostly due to their location and the foibles of our Electoral College. In a true nationwide winner-take-all contest, the results wouldn’t even be close.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:36:58am

Christian liar David Barton: Democrats aren’t “God-fearing,” so they cheat in elections

Did we expect this Republican Apparatchik to say anything else?

friendlyatheist.com

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:37:17am

re: #208 Eventual Carrion

Remember, BDay Sept. 7th. Expect cake and a nice cash donation.

9/7 dangersister too

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BigPapa  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:37:39am

re: #209 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I still thought you were taller

I’m horizon-tall. And, big in Japan.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:38:23am

re: #212 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

9/7 dangersister too

Also Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders

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BigPapa  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:39:20am

I have a big fish head in the freezer the Wife Unit is grumbling about taking up space. Some collar too. This can only mean fish stock which is the gateway drug to chowda. Because rules.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:39:44am

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:40:39am

re: #184 Unabogie

But calling it a work of fiction skips the 40 page rant towards the end of the book when a character explains the whole worldview of Ayn Rand.

I couldn’t make it through that rant. I think I got like 7 pages in and skimmed page after page after page. It was downright boring.

It never once occurred to me that this was some kind of philosophy. Had I known before reading it, I’d probably have laughed my way through.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:42:10am

re: #215 BigPapa

“Fish Heads” Barnes & Barnes (OFFICIAL VIDEO - BEST QUALITY)

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:43:24am

Hahah Suckers. You got played.

cnn.com

Trump lackies disappointed they’re ruined.

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BigPapa  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:44:29am

re: #218 Dave In Austin

“Eat them up, yum!’

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A Cranky One  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:44:37am

re: #215 BigPapa

I have a big fish head in the freezer the Wife Unit is grumbling about taking up space. Some collar too. This can only mean fish stock which is the gateway drug to chowda. Because rules.

google.com

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mmmirele  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:44:38am

Oh, speaking of typhoons, I had to deal with this yesterday morning after I walked into work:

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

In other news, it’s a balmy 78 and cloudy outside. The gauges around me are reporting a quarter-inch of rain fell during storms last night. Apparently we also have potential storms in the picture today and tomorrow.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:46:33am
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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:46:50am

re: #193 BigPapa

One of those other devices probably have a 24VAC power output that could power your thermostat. The original two wires worked with a mercury switch which was the old tsat.

Might be best to call an electrician or a low-voltage technician. I don’t want to advise further unless I’m there with a voltmeter and can check your architecture. I’d do it free of charge but the Trip Charge would be a little excessive.

Might be best to call an electrician or a low-voltage technician!!!

It might be low voltage, but it’s enough to fry the low voltage electronics.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:47:59am

re: #198 Unabogie

They mention “Garrett Miller’s analysis” about protesters in Portland (citing the usual Fox News lies about what happened here in 2020) but all I could find under that name was this dude. If it’s the same guy, great work, Counselor.

dallasnews.com

Trew belebers hiring other trew belebers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:49:02am

re: #202 Hecuba’s daughter

They will froth at the mouth if he is disqualified, regardless of the trial outcome. Their lord and master is being unjustly “persecuted” and any conviction is due to jurors who suffer from “TDS”.

Maybe they’ll do a write-in campaign. I’m all for that!

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BigPapa  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:49:15am

re: #224 BeenHereAwhile

Electricity hertz.
Low voltage mega-hertz.
WiFi giga-hertz.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:49:29am

re: #207 Hecuba’s daughter

No — it would take more than one swing state for him to lose, if he manages to win the other swing states. There is something seriously wrong with almost half the voters in this nation.

I think Mi and Pa are off the table for Trump, so he can survive losing Az or Ws, but only if he wins Nv, NH (he didn’t win either in ‘16 or ‘20), NC and Ga. Assuming Biden holds Nv and NH, if Trump is left off the ballot in any of Az, Ws, NC or Ga, I don’t think he can win the election.

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TarHellion  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:51:31am

re: #165 sizzzzlerz

MrsTarH will be turning 65 in early 2025, so already starting to look at Medicare options. Considering I pay about $600 bucks a month for her coverage at my work, I’m hoping to break even.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:51:42am

re: #200 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I’m writing down all your ages

You’re too late.

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ha

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:55:33am

re: #164 No Malarkey!

So roughing up teenagers for asking legitimate questions while you’re campaigning for votes is now DeSantis’ winning strategy? Alrighty then.

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Jay C  Sep 1, 2023 • 7:59:17am

re: #226 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Maybe they’ll do a write-in campaign. I’m all for that!

Assuming that they actually *can* write…

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:01:15am

re: #219 Florida Panhandler

Hahah Suckers. You got played.

cnn.com

Trump lackies disappointed they’re ruined.

Trump has publicly distanced himself from them, telling Newsmax he doesn’t know ‘a lot of these people.’”

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:02:23am

re: #233 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Trump has publicly distanced himself from them, telling Newsmax he doesn’t know ‘a lot of these people.’”

They should make a deal with Fani to testify against Trump, if they have any sense.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:03:19am

re: #215 BigPapa

I have a big fish head in the freezer the Wife Unit is grumbling about taking up space. Some collar too. This can only mean fish stock which is the gateway drug to chowda. Because rules.

Good thing about fish heads is you don’t have to pay to get them into the movies.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:05:15am

Mastodon

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:05:52am

re: #233 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Trump only knows Rubi Giuliani, Rudy’s sister.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:08:10am

re: #219 Florida Panhandler

Hahah Suckers. You got played.

cnn.com

Trump lackies disappointed they’re ruined.

But there is no sign yet that Trump intends to do so for any of his co-defendants in the Georgia case, which alleges that he and others engaged in a criminal conspiracy to subvert the state’s 2020 election results. In fact, Trump has publicly distanced himself from them, telling Newsmax he doesn’t know “a lot of these people.”

J Jonah Jameson Laugh - Spiderman

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:11:44am

re: #238 Eclectic Cyborg

But there is no sign yet that Trump intends to do so for any of his co-defendants in the Georgia case, which alleges that he and others engaged in a criminal conspiracy to subvert the state’s 2020 election results. In fact, Trump has publicly distanced himself from them, telling Newsmax he doesn’t know “a lot of these people.”

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It truly boggles the mind how so many people are blindly loyal to a depraved criminal who couldn’t care less about any of them.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:15:17am

re: #239 No Malarkey!

It truly boggles the mind how so many people are blindly loyal to a depraved criminal who couldn’t care less about any of them.

I’ve been struggling for quite some time to make sense of the whole thing. It started with “Republicans = God, Guns, Babies,” but it’s somehow transmogrified into “Trump = God’s Anointed One.” And I just can’t figure out how they made that leap. NOTHING about him is even remotely religious. Even the stunt with him brutally beating down protesting Black people to pose with an upside-down Bible in front of a church was nothing but self-aggrandizement. But some of these loons treat him as a literal Messiah, and I just can’t make it add up in my head.

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A Cranky One  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:16:44am

Woman’s 5-ft mullet earns Guinness World Record — it’s been growing for 33 years
nypost.com

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:21:41am

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:25:56am

re: #236 Patricia Kayden

Are we expected to believe that Chauncey DeVega is a real person with a real name?

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Charmingly Persistent  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:30:02am

re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

John Scalzi @scalzi.com
*
2h
The difference between Bluesky and Twitter isn’t that there are no crappy people here; this place has 840k users as of this instant, it’s impossible some of them won’t be trolls, creeps or malign. The difference is the ethos here is “Don’t engage, just block.” The moment the mask comes off, block.

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wrenchwench  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:37:09am

Mastodon

Friday.

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:40:52am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:41:27am

re: #239 No Malarkey!

It truly boggles the mind how so many people are blindly loyal to a depraved criminal who couldn’t care less about any of them.

Again. Classic cult behavior.

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lizardofid  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:41:36am

Good morning

Apologies if this has been been posted already, but the “gas bros” on the the ERCOT board are up to their usual shenanigans. They’re looking to curb development of battery backup infrastructure. Proposal 1186 would require that battery operators “overbuild” in order to store more energy than is needed any any given time. I’m pretty sure there’s no equivalent requirements for the thermal boys.

Smith, who represents a company that operates storage batteries for the grid, argued before ERCOT’s board of directors that a policy known as 1186 will hurt the up-and-coming industry.

“It will have a chilling effect on investment,” Smith said.

Smith said the proposal requires battery operators to have more power than needed at any given time. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of any equivalent requirements for the natural gas plants.

“This is like the government mandating a car have a 50-gallon tank for gas, but never allowing the fuel tank to go below half empty. The extra cost and weight are not valuable since the extra gas is not used,” Smith explained.

Link

Edited out my own editorial comment, which I had inserted in tn the middle of a quote.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:43:47am

re: #246 Captain Ron

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Or with being smart in general. He’s a talented fool.

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A Cranky One  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:44:38am

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wrenchwench  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:44:46am

Birbie.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 804 3/6*

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:53:37am

re: #240 Nerdy Fish

I’ve been struggling for quite some time to make sense of the whole thing. It started with “Republicans = God, Guns, Babies,” but it’s somehow transmogrified into “Trump = God’s Anointed One.” And I just can’t figure out how they made that leap. NOTHING about him is even remotely religious. Even the stunt with him brutally beating down protesting Black people to pose with an upside-down Bible in front of a church was nothing but self-aggrandizement. But some of these loons treat him as a literal Messiah, and I just can’t make it add up in my head.

The “God works in mysterious ways” trope has been front and center of the Evangelical Movement for decades now. For modern Christians it means literally anything goes as long as Christianity itself is seen as being promoted and made supreme.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:54:38am

re: #238 Eclectic Cyborg

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:55:19am

re: #246 Captain Ron

The hint that he was a jerk was when he went on an anti-Black tirade during one of his concerts. Just saying.

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wrenchwench  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:57:24am

Oob: Out On Bail.

Mastodon

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 1, 2023 • 8:58:10am

re: #235 GlutenFreeJesus

Good thing about fish heads is you don’t have to pay to get them into the movies.

“Fish Heads” Barnes & Barnes (OFFICIAL VIDEO - BEST QUALITY)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:01:38am

re: #230 BeenHereAwhile

You’re too late.

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ha

Why? Did you die? 😉

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:01:38am

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:02:49am

re: #231 Patricia Kayden

So roughing up teenagers for asking legitimate questions while you’re campaigning for votes is now DeSantis’ winning strategy? Alrighty then.

To an authoritarian, absolutely. Remember, he’s outlawed shit like this in Florida.

Welcome to the rest of the US!

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lizardofid  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:03:28am

re: #248 lizardofid

Edited out my own editorial comment, which I had inserted in tn the middle of a quote.

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nines09  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:03:48am

So Eric Clapton was coddled because, well, he’s fucking Eric Clapton.
Witnessing the degradation of the mental capacities of older people around me, and online…
Par for the course.
But he a virulent anti vaxxer, and in his biz, that’s not a smart move.
All the money and talent can’t hide the fact you a jerk.
RFK jr speaks to you as a smart guy, well bye bye Birdie.

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Unabogie  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:13:14am

re: #258 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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Neither me nor my wife has a uterus. Maybe he can try again?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:17:06am

re: #262 Unabogie

Neither me nor my wife has a uterus. Maybe he can try again?

I’d expect another weak, easily challenged definition.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:20:57am

re: #255 wrenchwench

Felon on a Melon,

Why did it take me so long to get that?

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:21:35am

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:22:05am

Mork slept by my feet last night guarding me. This meant Mindy was unable to insist on the attention she demands 3-4 times a night. I feel fantastic today.

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DodgerFan1988  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:27:15am


Comrade Rudy

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wrenchwench  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:30:16am

re: #264 Eclectic Cyborg

Felon on a Melon,

Why did it take me so long to get that?

There was a distracting Oob in front of it.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:33:57am

re: #264 Eclectic Cyborg

Felon on a Melon,

Why did it take me so long to get that?

Did a cat keep you up last night? I got it instantly.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:34:45am

re: #264 Eclectic Cyborg

Felon on a Melon,

Why did it take me so long to get that?

“Useful Dope” on a cantaloupe.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:37:38am

re: #257 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Why? Did you die? 😉

His scheme has been thwarted.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:38:43am

re: #270 BeenHereAwhile

“Useful Dope” on a cantaloupe.

Excuse me? ///

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:40:08am

DT on a cantaloupe? That is an insult to the cantaloupe.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:45:48am

Why don’t melons believe in marriage?

Because they cantaloupe.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:47:32am

re: #272 Nerdy Fish

“Useful Dope” on a cantaloupe.

Excuse me? ///

“Useful idiot” doesn’t rhyme.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:47:49am

re: #262 Unabogie

Neither me nor my wife has a uterus. Maybe he can try again?

And that cat did have one, so….

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:50:15am

re: #239 No Malarkey!

It truly boggles the mind how so many people are blindly loyal to a depraved criminal who couldn’t care less about any of them.

it’s becoming clearer to me it’s not loyalty
loyalty is mutual. requires respect in both directions

this seems more like a form of fealty, because it’s rooted in asymetric power

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wrenchwench  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:52:51am

re: #274 GlutenFreeJesus

Why don’t melons believe in marriage?

Because they cantaloupe.

Honeydew.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:53:41am

Called it.

Mastodon

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:54:01am

re: #278 wrenchwench

Honeydew.

Thats how husbands get their chores assigned.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:54:30am

Dominic Pezzola sentenced to ten years in prison. I know its disappointing, but that is a long time to serve when you are in your fifties.

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wrenchwench  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:57:25am

re: #280 Rightwingconspirator

Thats how husbands get their chores assigned.

Are there orchids in your chores? How’s the Dragon_lady? (May she excuse me for getting her nic wrong, which I’m sure I did somehow.)

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nines09  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:57:54am

Happy September. Sigh….
Have some Friday Soul.

Eddie Floyd - I’ve Never Found A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do) (Slayd5000)

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jaunte  Sep 1, 2023 • 9:58:25am

re: #267 DodgerFan1988

The apparent number of Trump loyalists inside the FBI trying to hide evidence is worrisome.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:00:46am

re: #271 BeenHereAwhile

His scheme has been thwarted.

there’s the archives…

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:01:23am

re: #281 No Malarkey!

Dominic Pezzola sentenced to ten years in prison. I know its disappointing, but that is a long time to serve when you are in your fifties.

I know the DOJ has been low-balling these sentences, but we do have to keep in mind, 10, 15, 17 years in a federal penitentiary is no picnic.

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jaunte  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:02:02am

re: #267 DodgerFan1988

“Buma’s statement highlights Giuliani’s relationship with Pavel Fuks, a wealthy Ukrainian developer, who in 2017 hired Giuliani and paid him $300,000.”

Now Rudy really needs the money to pay the people he’s wronged, but he has no Fuks left to give.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:03:56am

The usual run-own of higly respected works successfully attacked by ignorant fanatics. 14 books that have been banned in schools

This I did not know, though:

In 2006, “Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White was banned in a Kansas school district because parents argued that “talking animals are blasphemous and unnatural.”

I guess this parent had never read Numbers 22:21-39, the story of Balaam’s Donkey.
Since it’s been 17 years I wonder what has become of this weirdo parent’s children since then?

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jaunte  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:04:45am

County-by-county, Texas is bringing back the Fugitive Slave laws.


washingtonpost.com
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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:05:51am

The DOJ was trying to protect Trump from being deposed by Peter Strzok. They lost, fortunately.

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retired cynic  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:06:26am

re: #266 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Mork slept by my feet last night guarding me. This meant Mindy was unable to insist on the attention she demands 3-4 times a night. I feel fantastic today.

My three slept ON me last night (cool night). The older two were quiet, but the youngest was on my face (on top of the CPAP mask), and he is never still. I do not feel fantastic today.

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lizardofid  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:06:37am

re: #280 Rightwingconspirator

Thats how husbands get their chores assigned.

In some cases the assignment comes with one of these.

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wrenchwench  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:06:47am

re: #289 jaunte

County-by-county, Texas is bringing back the Fugitive Slave laws.

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washingtonpost.com

Are they pretending that Mexico doesn’t exist?

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Belafon  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:07:17am

re: #286 Nerdy Fish

I know the DOJ has been low-balling these sentences, but we do have to keep in mind, 10, 15, 17 years in a federal penitentiary is no picnic.

It’s been Kelly, the Trump appointed judge, who has been undercutting these sentences for the Oath Keepers.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:07:57am

re: #281 No Malarkey!

Dominic Pezzola sentenced to ten years in prison. I know its disappointing, but that is a long time to serve when you are in your fifties.

Does he actually have to serve that time, or does he get out early if he doesn’t cause any trouble in prison?

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Belafon  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:09:14am

re: #256 sizzzzlerz

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To tie this thread together, the first place I heard that song and saw that video was You Can’t Do That On Television.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:09:19am

re: #295 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Does he actually have to serve that time, or does he get out early if he doesn’t cause any trouble in prison?

There is some good time credit available, but most of federal sentences have to be served. He will get credit for the time he has been incarcerated since his arrest.

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BadgerB  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:10:53am

re: #200 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I’m writing down all your ages

Just put me down as Jurassic.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:11:39am

And Pezzola wastes no time demonstrating that his “remorse” was a complete sham, like many J6ers.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:12:17am

re: #264 Eclectic Cyborg

Felon on a Melon,

Why did it take me so long to get that?

Alternately Dope on a Cantaloupe.

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BigPapa  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:12:47am

I have two Brewski codes. 1 for 3, 2 for 5.

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BigPapa  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:13:44am

re: #289 jaunte

‘This really is building a wall to control women. Under his eye.’

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Belafon  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:14:01am

re: #289 jaunte

I just posted this on Facebook with:

Hey look, Texas is about to make it hard for women to be on the highway. I mean, how else are cops going to know if you’re going to get an abortion if they don’t stop you and ask?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:14:46am

re: #288 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Didn’t a snake talk to Eve in the first few chapters of the Bible?

/

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steve_davis  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:15:45am

re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So I went to watch the Wheel of Time season premier… and I stopped near the end of the “previously” section.

It just doesn’t make sense to me.

By which I mean, there is not really a story here.

It’s more like a collage of nifty fantasy ideas.

I know the hard-core book lovers really disliked season 1. The Robert Jordan fans were throwing tantrums the likes of which were only out-done by the Tolkien fans over RoP.

I tried to read Jordan’s first WoT book… gave up on the first page. Tried an audiobook of the same… gave up after a few minutes. I found Jordan’s writing to be rather blah, unlike Tolkien’s.

But the book stuff aside, the Amazon series I watched when it came out, found it ok, certainly well enough done to not be an eye-sore. Like so many high budget shows these days, the videography is good, and sets adequate to very good, the costumes fine.

WoT failed bigly, though, in not feeling “lived-in”, as critics like to say. WoT was too clean (hence the jokes about the OxyClean guys.)

But even with the overly-clean look, I think the real problem is that it is not one story.

Season one was a melange, a kind of table setting that long-running series may do in their first season (see Babylon 5 or Breaking Bad for good examples of such).

I think what I found problematic is that the table as it was being set was not being set with items I necessarily want to eat.

The romances hinted at… fell flat. The actors chemistry with each other did not convince me.

The magic was … really a kind of religion. Ok, so all religious miracles are magic, but not all magic is religious.

It seemed to me that Amazon’s show tried to make a big religious epic (like LOTR)… but there is a problem with the religion.

It’s not really there.

That is, the characters on the screen, the supporting characters, the masses of extras, aren’t practicing it.

Once again, the world did not feel lived-in. The belief systems were not being lived.

Oh well, I’ll still probably force myself to watch it.

The series is basically fantasy by committee. First, there is zero indication that this village out in the middle of nowhere is multiracial, but someone on a committee thought, “hey, we need to create an interracial marriage, so let’s do that.” Are there different ethnicities in Jordan’s WOT? Sure! Are they running around the same redneck village up in the mountains? No, they are not.

I will say that if you can find a copy of the first book where Jordan added the prelude, that helps a bit, in that it helps flesh out the opening characters a bit. I thought the first two books were pretty good. The third one might be but it slowed down and I got demotivated to make it past about page 50.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:15:53am

Peer review of Loeb’s findings have been somewhat unsupportive. Questions about the object’s speed, etc, but it tickles the (armchair expert) SF fan in me:

(Have no idea how credible this publication is)

Harvard’s Avi Loeb reports that the Galileo Project just completed the early analysis of 57 spherules from the crash site of the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1.
[…]
How unusually fast and strong was it?
The fireball light curve showed three flares, separated by a tenth of a second from each other. Prior to entering the solar system, IM1 was moving at a speed of 60 kilometers per second relative to the Local Standard of Rest of the Milky-Way galaxy, faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the Sun. Based on the fact that it maintained its integrity at an impact speed on Earth of 45 kilometers per second down to an elevation of 17 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean, its material strength must have been tougher than all 272 space rocks documented by NASA in the CNEOS meteor catalog, including the 5% minority of them which are iron meteorites.

nextbigfuture.com

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wrenchwench  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:16:02am

re: #301 BigPapa

I have two Brewski codes. 1 for 3, 2 for 5.

Mine got used.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:18:32am

re: #288 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

The usual run-own of higly respected works successfully attacked by ignorant fantatics. 14 books that have been banned in schools

This I did not know, though:
I

I guess this parent had never read Numbers 22:21-39, the story of Balaam’s Donkey.
Since it’s been 17 years I wonder what has become of this weirdo parent’s children since then?

Didn’t that snake talk…?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:19:42am

I have a Bluesky code. Anyone interested?

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:21:29am

re: #304 Eclectic Cyborg

re: #308 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

The “snake” was also the physical incarnation of Satan, so they kind of give that one a pass.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:22:14am

re: #303 Belafon

I just posted this on Facebook with:

There was a video last year showing a woman and her daughter being stopped and questioned as to whether the teen was pregnant that I can’t find now; this is going to start happening.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:22:16am

re: #281 No Malarkey!

Dominic Pezzola sentenced to ten years in prison. I know its disappointing, but that is a long time to serve when you are in your fifties.

Does anyone but me keep seeing dominos pizza?

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BigPapa  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:22:50am

re: #309 PhillyPretzel ✅

I have a Bluesky code. Anyone interested?

Mine is greater taste, less filling.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:23:42am

re: #312 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Does anyone but me keep seeing dominos pizza?

With extra beard hair and cigar ash.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:24:26am

re: #309 PhillyPretzel ✅

I have a Bluesky code. Anyone interested?

I bid 5 quatloos. I’ll warn you the exchange rate for dollars is not good these days.

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gocart mozart  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:27:20am

re: #223 Dave In Austin

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:27:27am

re: #315 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:28:26am

re: #310 Nerdy Fish

The “snake” was also the physical incarnation of Satan, so they kind of give that one a pass.

I’ve seen Satan and he looks like tom ellis

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:28:34am

re: #255 wrenchwench

Oob: Out On Bail.

Abandon hope, on a cantaloupe

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DodgerFan1988  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:28:52am

re: #284 jaunte

The apparent number of Trump loyalists inside the FBI trying to hide evidence is worrisome.

“Hail Hydra!”

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Decatur Deb  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:30:05am

re: #316 gocart mozart

If Ted Cruz were a beer, what would it be named?

Molson’s

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:30:05am

re: #317 PhillyPretzelre: #317 PhillyPretzel ✅

$0.0000045 has been deposited in your account. If your bank rounds to cents, it won’t be visible.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:31:06am

re: #301 BigPapa

I have two Brewski codes. 1 for 3, 2 for 5.

Some businessman

May I recommend 1 for 10, 2 for 25

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:32:21am

re: #319 Vicious Babushka

Abandon hope, on a cantaloupe

Anagramed: lemon on a melon

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:33:12am

re: #321 Decatur Deb

Molson’s

Why do you hate Canadians?

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:41:18am
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jaunte  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:42:53am

That Time Vivek Ramaswamy Fleeced Your Grandma, Who Has Alzheimer’s

“…his stated goal of destroying the administrative state would increase opportunities for hustlers like himself to get extremely rich while screwing people who put their faith in him, all while facing absolutely no consequences.”

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BigPapa  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:48:44am

Just seen on Bluski:

BREAKING: “X” will allow users to make video and audio calls with no phone number. With block features removed, if you thought you loved REGULAR spam phone calls, wait until you see THIS!

LOL if true.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:50:12am

re: #328 BigPapa

Just seen on Bluski:

LOL if true.

The calls thing is true. Elmo is trying to make Xitter a communications hub. The problem with that is that a lot of quality people don’t want to participate on a site that welcomes fascist scum.

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nines09  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:51:02am

re: #286 Nerdy Fish

I know the DOJ has been low-balling these sentences, but we do have to keep in mind, 10, 15, 17 years in a federal penitentiary is no picnic.

Big House time is hard time. Had a family member who served time in Terre Haute In and Lewisburg Pa fed pens.
He killed a man inside Terre Haute. Deemed self defense, got no time added on.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 1, 2023 • 10:57:27am
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William Lewis  Sep 1, 2023 • 11:00:22am

re: #310 Nerdy Fish

The “snake” was also the physical incarnation of Satan, so they kind of give that one a pass.

No it wasn’t. It was Anthony J. Crowley, demon, who looks suspiciously like David Tennant…

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 1, 2023 • 11:02:24am

re: #331 No Malarkey!

A lot of religious people are thrilled that money went to these animals, and thanking their presumably evil god.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 1, 2023 • 11:41:21am

re: #330 nines09

Big House time is hard time. Had a family member who served time in Terre Haute In and Lewisburg Pa fed pens.
He killed a man inside Terre Haute. Deemed self defense, got no time added on.

Based upon 7 years experience of visiting pre trial and post trial clients in fed and state pens in the SE & MW US, I hope he gained some in-house respect from his act.


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