The Bob Cesca Podcast: The Toe Monster

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

The Toe Monster — [Explicit Content] Breaking news about Glenn Youngkin and the Republican primaries. David was bitten by the toe monster under his bed. Highlights from last night’s pointless Republican debate. More Vivek ridiculousness. Chris Christie’s Donald Duck joke. Tim Scott says the Great Society was worse than slavery. Judge Engoron orders the disbanding of the Trump Organization. Trump makes things worse for himself. Unofficial impeachment hearings in the House. Republican voters think Trump is a man of faith. The looming government shutdown. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Betamax DC, Karma and the Killjoys, and more!

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EPR-radar  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:02:19pm

“Republican voters think Trump is a man of faith”

This is actually true, once ‘faith’ in this context is unpacked. The only faith Republicans have is in conservatism itself — i.e., “there must be an in group protected but not bound by laws, and out groups bound but not protected by laws.”

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gocart mozart  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:08:31pm

Hitler was a more devout Christian than Trump.

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:08:55pm

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:09:00pm

re: #1 EPR-radar

“Republican voters think Trump is a man of faith”

This is actually true, once ‘faith’ in this context is unpacked. The only faith Republicans have is in conservatism itself — i.e., “there must be an in group protected but not bound by laws, and out groups bound but not protected by laws.”

No, they genuinely believe he is a good Christian man, for three reasons:

1) He gave them the SCOTUS that reversed Roe;
2) He beat down BLM protesters to take a photo op in front of a church with an upside-down Bible;
3) He’s a Republican, and in their minds, only Republicans can be Christian (and must necessarily be).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:11:15pm

Don’t you feel safer?

Elon Musk just put out on his personal grievance site formerly known as Twitter that he’s in Eagle Pass, Tex. to discuss the “border crisis.”

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:11:18pm

re: #3 Vicious Babushka

Mmm. That looks delicious. And a very Happy Sukkot to you and your family.

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jaunte  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:11:52pm

re: #5 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Looking into it.”

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BigPapa  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:13:44pm

re: #3 Vicious Babushka

Happy Sukkot. The color on that brisket looks amazing.

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A Cranky One  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:14:12pm

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A Cranky One  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:15:02pm

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EPR-radar  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:26:21pm

re: #4 Nerdy Fish

No, they genuinely believe he is a good Christian man, for three reasons:

1) He gave them the SCOTUS that reversed Roe;
2) He beat down BLM protesters to take a photo op in front of a church with an upside-down Bible;
3) He’s a Republican, and in their minds, only Republicans can be Christian (and must necessarily be).

My thesis is that the GOP version of Christianity is precisely the defining proposition of conservatism regarding out-groups and an in-group, with “Christian (GOP)” serving as the label for the in-group.

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:26:37pm

re: #1 EPR-radar

“Republican voters think Trump is a man of faith”

This is actually true, once ‘faith’ in this context is unpacked. The only faith Republicans have is in conservatism itself — i.e., “there must be an in group protected but not bound by laws, and out groups bound but not protected by laws.”

Sorry no that is not what they mean.
That’s far too complex an idea

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:27:05pm

re: #11 EPR-radar

My thesis is that the GOP version of Christianity is precisely the defining proposition of conservatism regarding out-groups and an in-group, with “Christian (GOP)” serving as the label for the in-group.

I would agree with you.

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:27:39pm

re: #9 A Cranky One

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EPR-radar  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:28:29pm

re: #5 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Don’t you feel safer?

Elon Musk just put out on his personal grievance site formerly known as Twitter that he’s in Eagle Pass, Tex. to discuss the “border crisis.”

When I want the opinion of a clown with way too much money, I’ll ask for it. Until then, Musk should sit down, shut up, and let competent adults deal with the problems caused by Musk and his class of rent-seeking, “capital uber alles” vultures.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:29:53pm

re: #15 EPR-radar

When I want the opinion of a clown with way too much money, I’ll ask for it. Until then, Musk should sit down, shut up, and let competent adults deal with the problems caused by Musk and his class of rent-seeking, “capital uber alles” vultures.

In particular, a man who employs almost exclusively migrants on H1B visas (owing to the fact that all the good and decent employees who had the ability to leave the company did so long ago) should probably keep his opinions on border security to himself.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:30:21pm

Apparently Al Di Meola had a heart attack on stage in Bucharest. If he dies I’m gonna kick his ass! I’m still not over Holdsworth.

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:32:29pm
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EPR-radar  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:33:14pm

re: #12 Dangerman

Sorry no that is not what they mean.
That’s far too complex an idea

Your are correct in that they don’t articulate that as their world view (and are mostly incapable of doing so). I’m correct in identifying that as what they actually believe, as proved by their actions.

And there’s nothing complicated about the core of conservatism — the view that some people are better than others, therefore the better people get to set the rules lesser beings have to obey is morally repulsive, not complicated.

For a perfect example of this, see all the whining from the Jan 6 thugs facing consequences for violently rioting to make the Mango Menace a dictator.

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:33:51pm

re: #17 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Apparently Al Di Meola had a heart attack on stage in Bucharest. If he dies I’m gonna kick his ass! I’m still not over Holdsworth.

He got me through a lot of college

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wrenchwench  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:53:18pm

Mastodon

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:54:31pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:55:14pm

re: #1 EPR-radar

“Republican voters think Trump is a man of faith”

This is actually true, once ‘faith’ in this context is unpacked. The only faith Republicans have is in conservatism itself — i.e., “there must be an in group protected but not bound by laws, and out groups bound but not protected by laws.”

Well he is a man of faith and here’s proof!

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:55:38pm

re: #9 A Cranky One

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Why are there only 3 of them if it is a quartet?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:56:52pm

re: #24 Vicious Babushka

Why are there only 3 of them if it is a quartet?

Why the Holy Ghost is the 4th member of that group! 😏

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wrenchwench  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:57:00pm

re: #24 Vicious Babushka

Why are there only 3 of them if it is a quartet?

Somebody had to take the picture.

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austin_blue  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:57:25pm

I wanna be a Republican Representative.

I wanna tell lies, and bark at people I hate.

I wanna hate on brown, black, and sexualy different people.

I want to overturn the Constitution as we know it.

I don’t want you to vote because of bullshit reasons.

Please donate to my campaign!

You are a true patriot.

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austin_blue  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:58:32pm

re: #23 Joe Bacon ✅

Well he is a man of faith and here’s proof!

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I really wish you wouldn’t do that.

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gocart mozart  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:00:28pm

Chotner’s latest immolation

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DodgerFan1988  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:00:35pm
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gocart mozart  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:06:58pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:10:55pm

I’m so old I remember when Peter Daou seemed like a fairly OK sorta guy. We talked about jazz musicians on Twitter, and he knew his shit.

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wrenchwench  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:13:13pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

I’m so old I remember when Peter Daou seemed like a fairly OK sorta guy. We talked about jazz musicians on Twitter, and he knew his shit.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:17:09pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

I’m so old I remember when Peter Daou seemed like a fairly OK sorta guy. We talked about jazz musicians on Twitter, and he knew his shit.

While his frustrations are understandable, and we’ve seen many others go his route, Chotiner does all he can to basically say ‘Biden is as close to what you want as you’re likely to get.’ But Daou now has on these different lenses and can’t let himself see it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:24:10pm

Well, after arriving at the border, Elon Musk’s livestream on Twitter failed only a few minutes in. (Could have been the cheap ass cowboy hat he bought, could be he has no idea how to run a company.)

He sent out a company-wide message saying “Please fix this.”

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:25:11pm

The chill stage is over now. Just a little soreness in the arm.

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wrenchwench  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:27:37pm

re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, after arriving at the border, Elon Musk’s livestream on Twitter failed only a few minutes in. (Could have been the cheap ass cowboy hat he bought, could be he has no idea how to run a company.)

He sent out a company-wide message saying “Please fix this.”

Build a wall and put an antenna on it?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:27:58pm

The Secret to Beetles’ Unfathomable Diversity (Scientific American, September 27, 2023)

When a theologian asked J.B.S. Haldane what he could infer about the mind of God from studying the natural world, the famed evolutionary biologist was said to have replied, “God has an inordinate fondness for beetles.”

That quotation is perhaps apocryphal but also contains a large grain of truth. The evidence comes from the more than 400,000 species of beetles belonging to 190 families that have been described so far. That means that about one quarter of all 1.5 million species known to science (across all animals, plants and microbes) are beetles. In fact, the group’s vast diversity “was probably one of the things that led [Charles] Darwin and [Alfred Russel] Wallace to hatch on the mechanism of natural selection,” explains Max Barclay, senior curator of beetles at the Natural History Museum in London. “So we think the diversity of beetles actually has contributed to our understanding of our place in the universe. But since then a lot of scientists have been trying to figure out the reason for this remarkable diversity.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:29:53pm

re: #36 Barefoot Grin

The chill stage is over now. Just a little soreness in the arm.

I’m happy you’re feeling better.

I’ll call around to the places vaccines.gov says I can get a vaccine within one hundred miles (five), and if any of them have them, we’ll go. I don’t think we’ll mess around in town though; we’ll probably come right back before the crap hits.

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Charmingly Persistent  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:37:33pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

I’m so old I remember when Peter Daou seemed like a fairly OK sorta guy. We talked about jazz musicians on Twitter, and he knew his shit.

Right? Does he have brain worms or something?

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mmmirele  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:38:54pm

I spent *way* more time than I should have watching a “Moorish Sovereign Citizen” in Ohio get arrested for failure to identify, no driver’s license and no plates. The funny thing is she’s a repeat offender. The first video is from when she was arrested back on March 9. She got a ticket and a court date after the cop figured out what her legal name is (and it’s not the Moorish name), and do you think she showed up? That’d be a huge no.

I’m putting this behind the button, because it’s long and frustrating.

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This next video is from September 2. She’s arrested again by the same cop for the same things. This woman never cleans her car; as you watch, you’ll see the cop find the original ticket he gave her nearly 6 months previously, a “sovereign citizen” plate, apparently still in the wrapping, and the original paper tag from the purchase of the vehicle. And even though she claims she doesn’t “contract” with the state of Ohio, apparently she has enough legitimate ID that she’s able to get a medical marijuana card.

I generally am not a fan of cops, but I’m even less of a fan of sovereign citizens, who tend to have very weird ideas about law, the government and the Constitution, who have given grief to many a county court clerk, and who have, in the past, shot and killed police officers. So yeah, I am happy when one of these people FAFO.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:39:36pm

Shocked
Shocked I say

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Charles Johnson  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:40:48pm

macOS Sonoma has some pretty danged cool features, I must say.

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Captain Ron  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:40:51pm

I rode the canal loop today. The new bike rides nice and climbs hills with ease. It has better traction, is more nimble and can turn tighter than the fat tire bike. It is also 10 lbs lighter.

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:44:38pm

re: #22 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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“Conservative credentials”? Pffft
Trump is not a conservative

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mmmirele  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:44:41pm

re: #42 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Shocked
Shocked I say

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OK, so this is the gold standard of employment lawsuits, and that’s when the EEOC takes the suit and runs with it. You don’t pay anything, the government does it all for you. The EEOC takes these suits when the evidence is overwhelmingly in the employees’ favor. Otherwise it issues a “right to sue” letter which allows you to hire your own attorneys.

I suspect Tesla will settle out of court, because this is the sort of thing where if it gets to trial, it’s very, very ugly because the evidence is so overwhelming.

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jaunte  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:44:59pm

@joycemillman.bsky.social

Biden gave a strong speech today warning about the GOP & Trump’s plans to end democracy. It was Biden’s third (fourth?) speech on the existential threat (he used that term in one speech) Trump GOP poses. This is not a vacuum of ldrship, it’s vacuum of media. gift link below. washingtonpost.com

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:48:44pm
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BeachDem  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:53:16pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

I’m so old I remember when Peter Daou seemed like a fairly OK sorta guy. We talked about jazz musicians on Twitter, and he knew his shit.

Remember, he was Marianne Williamson’s campaign manager before he moved on to “greener pastures.”

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Charles Johnson  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:57:00pm

Mastodon

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:59:18pm

re: #34 Barefoot Grin

While his frustrations are understandable, and we’ve seen many others go his route, Chotiner does all he can to basically say ‘Biden is as close to what you want as you’re likely to get.’ But Daou now has on these different lenses and can’t let himself see it.

Daou believes Cornel West is the magic negro.

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EPR-radar  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:59:31pm

re: #45 Dangerman

“Conservative credentials”? Pffft
Trump is not a conservative

Trump does not profess conservative ideology in any coherent way (at least because both coherence and ideology are beyond him).

Nevertheless, he is a true conservative because he lives the Ideal Conservative Life — he does as he pleases because he is better than everyone else, and his worshippers long for that impunity themselves.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:01:14pm

re: #49 BeachDem

That was actually the point where I stopped paying attention to him. I do my fair share of criticizing democrats, but there are limits.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:01:27pm

THIS truly scares me!

Trump voters stick with him even when watching him make ‘liberal or stupid comments’

A right-wing anti-Donald Trump group has been trying to test messages to see what will persuade supporters of the former president to abandon him — and are coming up completely empty, reportedThe New York Times on Thursday.

“The political action committee, called Win It Back, has close ties to the influential fiscally conservative group Club for Growth. It has already spent more than $4 million trying to lower Mr. Trump’s support among Republican voters in Iowa and nearly $2 million more trying to damage him in South Carolina,” reported Jonathan Swan. “But in the memo — dated Thursday and obtained by The New York Times — the head of Win It Back PAC, David McIntosh, acknowledges to donors that after extensive testing of more than 40 anti-Trump television ads, “all attempts to undermine his conservative credentials on specific issues were ineffective.”

In the memo, McIntosh said, “Even when you show video to Republican primary voters — with complete context — of President Trump saying something otherwise objectionable to primary voters, they find a way to rationalize and dismiss it … Every traditional postproduction ad attacking President Trump either backfired or produced no impact on his ballot support and favorability. This includes ads that primarily feature video of him saying liberal or stupid comments from his own mouth.”

Trump has broken with some Republican orthodoxy as he runs for re-election, even going after his opponents for being too harsh on abortion bans, despite having appointed three of the Supreme Court justices that greenlit those bans in the first place.

According to the report, Win It Back has tried a number of attacks on Trump from the right, including his “handling of the pandemic, promotion of vaccines, praise of Dr. Fauci, insane government spending, failure to build the wall, recent attacks on pro-life legislation, refusal to fight woke issues, openness to gun control, and many others” — and none of it has worked.

rawstory.com

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Charles Johnson  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:03:00pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅

It’s a cult of personality. Not the first time we’ve seen this in human history. It’s like a virus.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:03:27pm

re: #55 Charles Johnson

It’s a cult of personality. Not the first time we’ve seen this in human history. It’s like a virus.

Not as insidious as the woke mind virus…///

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BigPapa  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:04:16pm

‘You’re in a cult!’ - cult

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:05:34pm

re: #36 Barefoot Grin

The chill stage is over now. Just a little soreness in the arm.

I had been team Moderna (my 5 prior shots) but Pfizer is what they had at Walgreen’s so that’s what I took, since apparently it’s fine to mix and match. As mentioned the other day, no reaction whatsoever, including no soreness at site of injection. When I scheduled my appointment online four days before, the schedule was completely open - so it does appear that there aren’t as many customers demanding the vaccine as in the past. I have friends who’ve gotten several shots previously but who have lost interest in additional boosters, especially since it seems to provide very limited protection against infection.

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EPR-radar  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:07:26pm

re: #55 Charles Johnson

It’s a cult of personality. Not the first time we’ve seen this in human history. It’s like a virus.

The GOP establishment still can’t believe it well and truly lost control of the GOP base all the way back in 2016.

Seeing them try (and fail) to bring their monster back under control would be extremely entertaining, except for that annoying part where the monster is a significant threat to everyone.

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CleverToad  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:08:07pm

Husband says I should post this link — top post on Mark Evanier’s blog, “Last Night at the Palladium”, interesting good news on the WGA meeting. For us old MAD & Groo fans, it’s worth the click just for the Sergio Aragones art on the header.

newsfromme.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:09:32pm

re: #55 Charles Johnson

It’s a cult of personality. Not the first time we’ve seen this in human history. It’s like a virus.

It’s how religious groups start.

In the end, they will die for their leader/belief.

C.f. what happened in Kenya recently with some Christian fundamentalists.

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BigPapa  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:09:39pm

Had to get a crown redone. Previous one only lasted 45 years.

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EPR-radar  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:11:07pm

re: #55 Charles Johnson

It’s a cult of personality. Not the first time we’ve seen this in human history. It’s like a virus.

Another point worth noting is that it clearly demonstrates that all of these “conservative principles” the right wing noise machine produces are completely meaningless. Nobody believes in or cares about that shit, not even Republicans.

Trump is the leader of a personality cult because he makes his wretched supporters feel better about themselves. It is explicitly and entirely an emotional appeal.

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JC1  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:11:34pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅

THIS truly scares me!

Trump voters stick with him even when watching him make ‘liberal or stupid comments’

A right-wing anti-Donald Trump group has been trying to test messages to see what will persuade supporters of the former president to abandon him — and are coming up completely empty, reportedThe New York Times on Thursday.

“The political action committee, called Win It Back, has close ties to the influential fiscally conservative group Club for Growth. It has already spent more than $4 million trying to lower Mr. Trump’s support among Republican voters in Iowa and nearly $2 million more trying to damage him in South Carolina,” reported Jonathan Swan. “But in the memo — dated Thursday and obtained by The New York Times — the head of Win It Back PAC, David McIntosh, acknowledges to donors that after extensive testing of more than 40 anti-Trump television ads, “all attempts to undermine his conservative credentials on specific issues were ineffective.”

In the memo, McIntosh said, “Even when you show video to Republican primary voters — with complete context — of President Trump saying something otherwise objectionable to primary voters, they find a way to rationalize and dismiss it … Every traditional postproduction ad attacking President Trump either backfired or produced no impact on his ballot support and favorability. This includes ads that primarily feature video of him saying liberal or stupid comments from his own mouth.”

Trump has broken with some Republican orthodoxy as he runs for re-election, even going after his opponents for being too harsh on abortion bans, despite having appointed three of the Supreme Court justices that greenlit those bans in the first place.

According to the report, Win It Back has tried a number of attacks on Trump from the right, including his “handling of the pandemic, promotion of vaccines, praise of Dr. Fauci, insane government spending, failure to build the wall, recent attacks on pro-life legislation, refusal to fight woke issues, openness to gun control, and many others” — and none of it has worked.

rawstory.com

I don’t think this is new. I remember the throngs of idiots with flip flops in their hands chanting ‘flip-flop’ during the 2004 campaign.
I’ve sadly also been to some dem rallies that couldn’t be pierced with a dose of objective reality.

I don’t mean to both sides the issue. Over the past 15+ years the GOP has been in a league of their own.

It’s just that politics seems to tap into the religion fervor part of the brain of a large percentage of people on both sides of the aisle.

The GOP has gone so far off the deep end, that the only people they have left are the true believers and the grifters exploiting them.

Fortunately, they’re not a majority.

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EPR-radar  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:14:41pm

re: #64 JC1

Rallies and the like are inherently irrational events. In fact, most public debates fall into this category as well, since the purported seeking for truth is nearly always secondary to pushing the agenda (creationists vs. scientists being the canonical example).

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BigPapa  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:15:55pm

Another thing I’ve long noticed with the right wing: they’re in a perpetual state of projection and completely unencumbered by the concepts of honesty, intellectual consistency, or hypocrisy.

While they commonly complain about virtue signaling they are the ultimate virtue signalers. Their concept of truth, AKA ‘telling it like it is,’ is adhering to the cult’s Truth. That’s why an incessant liar like Chump is respected for ‘telling it like it is.’ Funhouse mirror reason and reality.

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EPR-radar  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:20:12pm

re: #66 BigPapa

Here’s what is really scary about the GOP. They have spent decades perfecting the art of believing absurdities.

That means if/when a sufficiently evil and capable demagogue comes along for the “committing atrocities” part of that story, there will be no restraint whatsoever.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:20:48pm

re: #58 Hecuba’s daughter

I had been team Moderna (my 5 prior shots) but Pfizer is what they had at Walgreen’s so that’s what I took, since apparently it’s fine to mix and match. As mentioned the other day, no reaction whatsoever, including no soreness at site of injection. When I scheduled my appointment online four days before, the schedule was completely open - so it does appear that there aren’t as many customers demanding the vaccine as in the past. I have friends who’ve gotten several shots previously but who have lost interest in additional boosters, especially since it seems to provide very limited protection against infection.

This was my first reaction. I don’t know if it had to do with adding the flu shot. The guys administering the shots said some people felt a bit “yucky.”

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Decatur Deb  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:21:03pm

re: #60 CleverToad

Husband says I should post this link — top post on Mark Evanier’s blog, “Last Night at the Palladium”, interesting good news on the WGA meeting. For us old MAD & Groo fans, it’s worth the click just for the Sergio Aragones art on the header.

newsfromme.com

The thing that gives unionization the power to win, is winning a few.

I miss Don Martin.

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silverdolphin  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:27:11pm

The WGA agreement may have changed our relationship with AI creativity

Why is all this important? Because the creative arts, even low ones like TV and comic books, serve a huge purpose in our civilization. They create, sustain and provide the metaphors needed to survive in the social environment we find ourselves.

The world is too coimplex for any of us to have real understanding. But good metaphors help us find success and maybe a little understanding. Metaphiors, rules of thumb, parables etc. help simplify complexity so people can survive the social environment they inhabit.

But what happens if, due to disruptive technologies and the new economies they create,
the social environemnt changes? Old metaphors do not work (“Those strangers from the East must be messengers from Quetzalcoatl” or “let’s cut down the last tree on the island so we can move these large stone heads into place”). Without new metaphors, failure and collapse await.

The creative arts are great at helping us learn the new metaphors necessary for success. They often become immensely popular because of this. To me, it is not coincidence that some of the most popular movies of all time deal with groups of people doing the heroic things. Hatty Potter. The Avengers. Mission Impossible. They were not strictly the Hero’s Journey tale told so often. They were about individuals coming together to fight a complex enemy, each bringing their own strengths to the overall success, rather than one Dirty Harry individual who singlehandedly solved the problems.

Because to be successful today requires collaboration of diverse, differently thinking people to be able to solve complex problems unattainable just a decade ago. Climate change, Human health. And Ai is not going to be able to take metaphors of the past to create metaphors for the future.

They will not be much help as the world changes, probably giving mixed metaphors rather than the understanding human creative works would.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:30:27pm

re: #70 silverdolphin

Because to be successful today requires collaboration of diverse, differently thinking people to be able to solve complex problems unattainable just a decade ago. Climate change, Human health. And Ai is not going to be able to take metaphors of the past to create metaphors for the future.

Such a thing then maybe should not be labeled “AI”.

That’s the problem with using “AI” as a label for things like chatGPT and Stable Diffusion. Neither are AI, they are just extremely sophisticated mimeo machines.

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:33:09pm

Onle Skum wants to burn it all down.

‘Challenge accepted, Elon’: Mehdi lays out the hate on Musk’s Twitter in gory detail

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:33:40pm

re: #64 JC1

I don’t think this is new. I remember the throngs of idiots with flip flops in their hands chanting ‘flip-flop’ during the 2004 campaign.
I’ve sadly also been to some dem rallies that couldn’t be pierced with a dose of objective reality.

I don’t mean to both sides the issue. Over the past 15+ years the GOP has been in a league of their own.

It’s just that politics seems to tap into the religion fervor part of the brain of a large percentage of people on both sides of the aisle.

The GOP has gone so far off the deep end, that the only people they have left are the true believers and the grifters exploiting them.

Fortunately, they’re not a majority.

They’re barely a majority of the minority.

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wrenchwench  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:38:29pm

Mastodon

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:41:29pm

I think Darth Cheney already knows what is in Putin’s influence files. If anyone outside the Russian IC knows, he does. That is the reason he has made such effort and sacrifice to distance himself from the MAGA cult.

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Belafon  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:41:45pm

re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Such a thing then maybe should not be labeled “AI”.

That’s the problem with using “AI” as a label for things like chatGPT and Stable Diffusion. Neither are AI, they are just extremely sophisticated mimeo machines.

There’s a problem with using the term AI, and that’s why the professors at the University of Texas at Dallas preferred the term machine learning, or ML. What we’re doing here is not intelligence for sure, but it is a form of learning. These algorithms are learning to do rather complex tasks, but they don’t have any ability to generalize or use that knowledge to shape other things they do.

At the same time, anyone who dismisses AI as just a mimeo machine doesn’t understand that it is going beyond just copying its input, and fails to understand how its abilities are actually extending beyond our understanding of why they can work.

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IngisKahn  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:44:04pm

re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Is this the No True AI fallacy?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:48:42pm

re: #59 EPR-radar

The GOP establishment still can’t believe it well and truly lost control of the GOP base all the way back in 2016.

Seeing them try (and fail) to bring their monster back under control would be extremely entertaining, except for that annoying part where the monster is a significant threat to everyone.

I would argue for any sort of control they had over their party base, they lost it with the Tea Party movement.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:49:32pm

re: #61 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s how religious groups start.

In the end, they will die for their leader/belief.

C.f. what happened in Kenya recently with some Christian fundamentalists.

A lot of them are doing that with Covid-19.

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Captain Ron  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:52:29pm
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IngisKahn  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:53:49pm

In the 80s the behavior of the ghosts in Pac Man was considered AI. (and still rightfully is)

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sagehen  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:56:05pm

re: #63 EPR-radar

Another point worth noting is that it clearly demonstrates that all of these “conservative principles” the right wing noise machine produces are completely meaningless. Nobody believes in or cares about that shit, not even Republicans.

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mmmirele  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:56:12pm

re: #61 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s how religious groups start.

In the end, they will die for their leader/belief.

C.f. what happened in Kenya recently with some Christian fundamentalists.

It’s reminding me of “Conan the Barbarian” and all those cultists hypnotized by Thulsa Doom. However, we haven’t got to the part of the movie where the spell was broken when Conan lopped off Doom’s head, the cultists dropped their torches into a pool of water, left, and the temple itself burned down.

I wonder if I’ll live long enough to see that.

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:04:12pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅

THIS truly scares me!

Trump voters stick with him even when watching him make ‘liberal or stupid comments’

A right-wing anti-Donald Trump group has been trying to test messages to see what will persuade supporters of the former president to abandon him — and are coming up completely empty, reportedThe New York Times on Thursday.

“The political action committee, called Win It Back, has close ties to the influential fiscally conservative group Club for Growth. It has already spent more than $4 million trying to lower Mr. Trump’s support among Republican voters in Iowa and nearly $2 million more trying to damage him in South Carolina,” reported Jonathan Swan. “But in the memo — dated Thursday and obtained by The New York Times — the head of Win It Back PAC, David McIntosh, acknowledges to donors that after extensive testing of more than 40 anti-Trump television ads, “all attempts to undermine his conservative credentials on specific issues were ineffective.”

In the memo, McIntosh said, “Even when you show video to Republican primary voters — with complete context — of President Trump saying something otherwise objectionable to primary voters, they find a way to rationalize and dismiss it … Every traditional postproduction ad attacking President Trump either backfired or produced no impact on his ballot support and favorability. This includes ads that primarily feature video of him saying liberal or stupid comments from his own mouth.”

Trump has broken with some Republican orthodoxy as he runs for re-election, even going after his opponents for being too harsh on abortion bans, despite having appointed three of the Supreme Court justices that greenlit those bans in the first place.

According to the report, Win It Back has tried a number of attacks on Trump from the right, including his “handling of the pandemic, promotion of vaccines, praise of Dr. Fauci, insane government spending, failure to build the wall, recent attacks on pro-life legislation, refusal to fight woke issues, openness to gun control, and many others” — and none of it has worked.

rawstory.com

The same can be said for Conservatives in general- no matter what historical, factual or scientific evidence is presented it is always the belief amongst them that Conservatism cannot fail- it can only be failed.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:07:36pm

re: #83 mmmirele

It’s reminding me of “Conan the Barbarian” and all those cultists hypnotized by Thulsa Doom. However, we haven’t got to the part of the movie where the spell was broken when Conan lopped off Doom’s head, the cultists dropped their torches into a pool of water, left, and the temple itself burned down.

I wonder if I’ll live long enough to see that.

That won’t work. These people found someone who vocalizes their deeply held biases on the world stage. They weren’t hypnotized; this is what they are.

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silverdolphin  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:09:09pm

re: #76 Belafon

There’s a problem with using the term AI, and that’s why the professors at the University of Texas at Dallas preferred the term machine learning, or ML. What we’re doing here is not intelligence for sure, but it is a form of learning. These algorithms are learning to do rather complex tasks, but they don’t have any ability to generalize or use that knowledge to shape other things they do.

At the same time, anyone who dismisses AI as just a mimeo machine doesn’t understand that it is going beyond just copying its input, and fails to understand how its abilities are actually extending beyond our understanding of why they can work.

This is why Apple does not ever use the term Ai. But machine learning is all over their work.

I do not think current Ai is simply a mimeo machine but I am also not convinced that it will be very good with the creative output needed as we exchange one social environment for another. I fear to see what an AI built on the the culture of the 1910s would be to create stories for today, in a totally different cultural environment..

Birth of a Nation is likely the most popular movie of all time, needing perhaps a take of $10 billion, was the first movie shown in the White House, people paid the equivalent of $50 to sit through a 3 hour movie. Even protests by the NAACP could not convince people this movie was a metaphor for the world they lved in - one in which, apparently, the KKK saved white women from being raped by black men.

ChatGPT built on the media of this era would , IMHO, simply be unable to create a creative work that would be popular in today’s era. Heck, I htink based on media from the 1970s would be problematic.

I would love to see this actually done. My personal hypothesis is that such an AI would be unable to produce acceptable creative works for today’s audience. If so, such AI’s based on today’s culture would fail when a new environment appears. But humans would as they are intrinsically part of the culture.

Love to see someone try this. Lots of that media must be avaiable. Train it on 1950s media and see how it creates stories today.

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:17:36pm

After nearly a 2 year wait for a Rivian (arrives tomorrow but I’m not buying it because I can’t justify adding 85K to the purchase of a house at the same time) I go to fucking CarMax and order a pickup to hold me for a couple of years until I’m ready to spring for a Rivian (or whatever had the same features) and it’ll be here in 2 to 3 days. What the fuck?

2021 Dodge 1500 Bighorn. Under $30K. Will be perfect for my immediate needs for the next few years and also good for surfing.

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Amory Blaine  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:25:14pm

Gahh. PSA: There’s a nation wide shortage of cat litter developing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:26:05pm

Via BlueSky:

William Gunn * 1h
@drgunn.bsky.social

Scientists, your jobs are safe: #ai #artificialintelligence #llms #biochemistry 🧪

The question posed to Bing’s so-called AI is:

“What enzymes are inhibited by sulfite? Please include the mechanism of inhibition.”

The answers are, well, wrong.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:27:00pm

re: #88 Amory Blaine

Gahh. PSA: There’s a nation wide shortage of cat litter developing.

All those furry cat students in schools /s

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Amory Blaine  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:27:44pm

Something to do with a hack at Clorox.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:27:50pm

Incidentally, these are two of my great nephews, when they were little and today.

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Jay C  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:28:40pm

re: #88 Amory Blaine

Gahh. PSA: There’s a nation wide shortage of cat litter developing.

I know.
At least so far, my first two tries at replenishing our supplies have run into “out of stock” walls, with no end in sight.

I told Jessica, and she seems concerned….

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CleverToad  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:30:39pm

re: #92 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Incidentally, these are two of my great nephews, when they were little and today.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:31:31pm

Scientific American, September 27, 2023

Streetlights Are Mysteriously Turning Purple. Here’s Why

“Newly purple streetlights might seem innocuous, but they could affect driver and pedestrian safety”

American cities and towns started switching their streetlights from sodium lamps to LEDs about 15 years ago, which changed the color of many nighttime roads from yellowish orange to bright white. But lately an odd new nocturnal color has been spotted across the nation—and the globe. Anecdotal reports of purple-looking streetlights have been popping up since early 2021 in states including Florida, Utah, Texas and Massachusetts, as well as in Canada and Ireland.

This phenomenon might seem weird but innocuous. After all, what harm could purple streetlights possibly do other than scare nearby residents as Halloween approaches? But it turns out that the hue of the light illuminating a roadway could affect how drivers and pedestrians perceive their surroundings as they make their way through the night. And that makes purple streetlights a potential safety hazard.

(more)

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:34:09pm

re: #17 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Apparently Al Di Meola had a heart attack on stage in Bucharest. If he dies I’m gonna kick his ass! I’m still not over Holdsworth.

No! We’ve already lost too many music gods this year. Isn’t there a quota or something?

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:35:10pm

re: #88 Amory Blaine

Gahh. PSA: There’s a nation wide shortage of cat litter developing.

Eartha uses SWheat (wheat based litter) and a clumping sand (she gets two boxes plus the bathtub in the guest bathroom where she likes to pee before flushing the toilet…hey, she’s a fuckin’ cat!).

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:36:34pm

re: #24 Vicious Babushka

Why are there only 3 of them if it is a quartet?

He’s hiding behind her hair

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Semper Fi  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:37:11pm

re: #93 Jay C

I know.
At least so far, my first two tries at replenishing our supplies have run into “out of stock” walls, with no end in sight.

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I told Jessica, and she seems concerned….

Just checked Amazon…they have it. Cat litter that is.

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jeffreyw  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:49:21pm

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jaunte  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:52:07pm

re: #100 jeffreyw

Phil Attely.

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jeffreyw  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:57:01pm

re: #101 jaunte

Phil Attely.

I knew Phil. Quiet guy. Always with a grin. Had a pretty wife.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:57:13pm

Stat, September 28, 2023

Did the government get a bad deal on the Covid-19 boosters?

TL;DR: Yes. The USA is paying about three times as much as countries which negotiate for the boosters in bulk.

Private insurers are paying far more than the US government.

Senate health committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who called Moderna’s CEO Stéphane Bancel to Capitol Hill over the company’s decision to hike its vaccine price in March, was not pleased by reports of how much lower the EU’s price could be.

“Europeans are now negotiating with Moderna for a new vaccine, and their price is going to be substantially less in Europe than it is in the United States. So that’s exactly the issue. We’re trying to get a hold of reasonable pricing,” Sanders said in a brief interview at the Capitol.

Sanders has held up the confirmation of President Biden’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health to push for the federal government to include contracting provisions mandating that the U.S. should pay similar prices to other countries if they pay to develop a drug. HHS did so in a recent contract for a drug to prevent Covid-19 with the company Regeneron.

(more)

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Jay C  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:58:45pm

re: #99 Semper Fi

Just checked Amazon…they have it. Cat litter that is.

I did too: not our preferred brand.

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:01:07pm

re: #104 Jay C

I did too: not our preferred brand.

The cat’s going to shit on it, not you.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:02:34pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅

Trump is easier to beat so good.

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IngisKahn  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:06:18pm

re: #105 darthstar

The cat’s going to shit on it, not you.

That is not guaranteed.

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wrenchwench  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:11:29pm

Birbie.

Mastodon

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Cheechako  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:20:52pm

re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Scientific American, September 27, 2023

Streetlights Are Mysteriously Turning Purple. Here’s Why

“Newly purple streetlights might seem innocuous, but they could affect driver and pedestrian safety”

(more)

This happened in Juneau a couple of years ago. The State DOT replaced all the light bulbs on our only “Expressway”for about 10 miles with LED bulbs to reduce costs and energy use. About 80% of the new bulbs gave out a purple light. Purple light does not light up a roadway at all. The State sued the manufacture and got new light bulbs with clear light.
This took about a year and a half to get the replacements.

The manufacture must have sent the old, replaced bulbs elsewhere.

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wrenchwench  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:22:18pm

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:24:32pm

re: #109 Cheechako

This happened in Juneau a couple of years ago. The State DOT replaced all the light bulbs on our only “Expressway”for about 10 miles with LED bulbs to reduce costs and energy use. About 80% of the new bulbs gave out a purple light. Purple light does not light up a roadway at all. The State sued the manufacture and got new light bulbs with clear light.
This too about a year and a half to get the replacements.

The manufacture must have sent the old, replaced bulbs elsewhere.

The article notes there are two ways to make LED white lights.

The first is to use blue, green, and red LEDs. That means three different circuits (because they use different wattage) and higher electricity use.

The other method is to use blue LEDs only (they use the least wattage) and coat the LEDs in a phosphor which changes some of the blue light to red and green, creating white light.

That’s much cheaper, so that’s what most manufacturers do.

Unfortunately, heat created within a sealed lamp, plus changing temperatures and conditions, can cause the phosphor to break down or pull away from the LED, creating blue/violet light.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:30:20pm

Long opinion piece, Scientific American, October 1, 2023

Aside from physical and economic issues, the public has never supported Moon or Mars bases (except one poll in July 1969), and ethical considerations.

Why We’ll Never Live in Space

“Medical, financial and ethical hurdles stand in the way of the dream to settle in space”

Polling about NASA’s role has consistently shown space exploration as the least-desired mission for the agency. Items which get the most support are things such as monitoring climate change, Earth sciences, &c.

The article also notes that the reason space nerds will most often give for space exploration is the technology generated with civilian applications. This is a red herring, as if you want to invest in those things you can invest in them directly.

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Captain Ron  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:32:50pm

YouTube

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wrenchwench  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:43:09pm

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Belafon  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:44:01pm

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Kind of like how we’d have the internet without a cold war.

“We’ll never leave Africa.” “There’s no reason to ever leave Japan.” “Why would we climb on boats and leave the (Marquesas) Islands?”

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Targetpractice  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:44:10pm

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Long opinion piece, Scientific American, October 1, 2023

Aside from physical and economic issues, the public has never supported Moon or Mars bases (except one poll in July 1969), and ethical considerations.

Why We’ll Never Live in Space

“Medical, financial and ethical hurdles stand in the way of the dream to settle in space”

Polling about NASA’s role has consistently shown space exploration as the least-desired mission for the agency. Items which get the most support are things such as monitoring climate change, Earth sciences, &c.

The article also notes that the reason space nerds will most often give for space exploration is the technology generated with civilian applications. This is a red herring, as if you want to invest in those things you can invest in them directly.

Realistically, if not for Kennedy setting the bar at a manned lunar landing by the end of the decade and then dying tragically, NASA would probably have spent the latter half of the 20th suggesting a manned mission would happen “eventually.” Oh, and the Soviet Union would probably still be around since they wouldn’t have wrecked a significant portion of their economy trying to beat us when they could have joined us in setting achievable goals in Earth orbit and sending probes to the various planets.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:46:57pm

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:53:25pm

re: #117 Joe Bacon ✅

Actual FB posts today from my deranged Trumpster “friend”:

Post 1:

Why are the mainstream networks blacking out impeachment inquiry.
Americans need to see the evidence that congress has.

Post 2:

Biden is at it again. Accusing half of Americans being dangerous against our country because MAGA people believe in common sense.
But it’s ok for Antifa riots are ok.
Watch the impeachment inquiry hearings. Biden is s liar. It’s all coming out!!!!

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JC1  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:54:42pm

re: #76 Belafon

There’s a problem with using the term AI, and that’s why the professors at the University of Texas at Dallas preferred the term machine learning, or ML. What we’re doing here is not intelligence for sure, but it is a form of learning. These algorithms are learning to do rather complex tasks, but they don’t have any ability to generalize or use that knowledge to shape other things they do.

At the same time, anyone who dismisses AI as just a mimeo machine doesn’t understand that it is going beyond just copying its input, and fails to understand how its abilities are actually extending beyond our understanding of why they can work.

I don’t want to argue about semantics (ML vs AI); it’s clear that we don’t have AGI yet.
With that said, LLMs have emergent properties and ‘abilities’ that we wouldn’t expect from a next token/word predictor.

The capability that already exists is revolutionary.
I’ve been involved with an AI startup for the past few months; mostly leveraging GPT4, Claude, and the like, but also implementing some of our own stuff. Some of the ‘smartest people in the room’ in private equity firms piloting with us are blown away by our alpha product. Projects that would have taken dozens of hours of executive or outsourced consultant or legal time can in many cases be done in a few minutes by current AI/ML systems.

I don’t know if current state of the art LLMs will platoe for a few years or keep getting better like they have been. But when we get another 2 generational leaps like we had from GPT 3 to to 4, then we’ll be in for some really wild sci-fi shit.

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William Lewis  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:56:22pm

re: #116 Targetpractice

Realistically, if not for Kennedy setting the bar at a manned lunar landing by the end of the decade and then dying tragically, NASA would probably have spent the latter half of the 20th suggesting a manned mission would happen “eventually.” Oh, and the Soviet Union would probably still be around since they wouldn’t have wrecked a significant portion of their economy trying to beat us when they could have joined us in setting achievable goals in Earth orbit and sending probes to the various planets.

The military arms race would have still destroyed their economy, if not the world. Ronnie RayGun and co would have seen to that. Space actually gave a vent to some of those pressures.

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wrenchwench  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:59:48pm

The college radio station is playing ABBA.

I don’t know what’s wrong with kids these days, but it seems to be closely related to whatever was wrong with kids in my day.

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piratedan  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:04:29pm

re: #121 wrenchwench

I don’t know how ABBA was able to avoid sounding too saccharine, but they did. I always thought that they were able to tread that line on the side of sincerity instead of kitsch.

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Targetpractice  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:05:13pm

re: #118 Hecuba’s daughter

Actual FB posts today from my deranged Trumpster “friend”:

Post 1:

Post 2:

Ask your friend if the Packers beat the Lions tonight in the alternate universe they’re living in.

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Captain Ron  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:09:05pm

Cool, a bike lock with chemical weapons.

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William Lewis  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:14:35pm

re: #123 Targetpractice

Ask your friend if the Packers beat the Lions tonight in the alternate universe they’re living in.

Fun to see a _Good_ Lions team for a change :)

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:16:05pm

re: #122 piratedan

I don’t know how ABBA was able to avoid sounding too saccharine, but they did. I always thought that they were able to tread that line on the side of sincerity instead of kitsch.

I was going to say they were pre-saccharine, but saccharine was invented in 1879. Brahmes ‘Violin Concero in D Minor’ was the hottest thing on the charts then.

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wrenchwench  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:17:35pm

Ron Wyden is great.

Mastodon

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:18:44pm

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Targetpractice  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:24:39pm

How bad did today go for Comer’s Four Ring Circus? They’ve had to tell people that they never intended to show any evidence today, just present three experts to argue that there was reason to start an impeachment inquiry in order to dig for that evidence. And that only works if you just ignore all the times the Dems on the committee asked the experts if there was enough smoke to even suggest a fire was somewhere in the vicinity and they kept answering in the negative. One witness was even keeping score of how many times the words “if” or “Hunter” were uttered by Repubs (when asked, the tally to that point was 38).

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:36:34pm

re: #118 Hecuba’s daughter

Actual FB posts today from my deranged Trumpster “friend”:

Post 1:

Post 2:

I am sure that my brainwashed Jesusbot relatives are posting the same ssshhhaaavvviiinnngg cream. Which is why I gave up on them and cut them off.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:38:34pm

re: #128 Patricia Kayden

He hates who you hate.

That is the heart of the problem. They hate minorities and immigrants and Trump is their perfect messenger. All the other issues they claim are important barely register. Except maybe the right to kill other Americans with guns — that may be near the top too.

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Egregious Philbin  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:54:11pm

re: #109 Cheechako

Happened in Phoenix, its a manufacturing error, the covers de laminated. Of course on Nextdoor, it is evidence of some greater conspiracy. azcentral.com

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Sherlock Hound  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:56:38pm

re: #124 Captain Ron

“This is the Lock-Picking Lawyer and what I have for you today is…”
///

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IngisKahn  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:02:17pm

re: #133 Sherlock Hound

Ya, I’m sure it can be picked in seconds.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:05:36pm

By the way did Turley show up on Fox yet?

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DodgerFan1988  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:14:45pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:27:01pm

re: #132 Egregious Philbin

It’s because the commie Democrats are taking away our incandescent light bulbs!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:41:00pm

Looks like El Niño is going to start the rainy season early for Los Angeles with rain and possible thunderbumpers this weekend.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 11:25:44pm

I’m sure this will go over well with Russia. From Estonia’s public broadcaster, in English

Estonia’s parliament committee recommends using Königsberg not Kaliningrad (Eesti Rahvusringhääling, September 26, 2023)

The Riigikogu Foreign Affairs Committee proposed on Tuesday that the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad should be referred to by its historical name Königsberg from now on.

The committee made the proposal to the Language Committee of the Estonian Language Society.

Chairman Marko Mihkelson (Reform) said the committee found that using the Soviet-era name Kaliningrad in the Estonian language should be discontinued and the historic name Königsberg should be used instead.

Mihkelson emphasized that Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland have already made similar moves.

Members also pointed out that the city of Kingisepp in Russia, close to the Estonian border, should be called by its former name Jamburg or Jaama.

(more)

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Teukka  Sep 28, 2023 • 11:44:11pm

re: #88 Amory Blaine

Gahh. PSA: There’s a nation wide shortage of cat litter developing.

re: #93 Jay C

I know.
At least so far, my first two tries at replenishing our supplies have run into “out of stock” walls, with no end in sight.

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I told Jessica, and she seems concerned….

Is it all types, or some specific types of litter?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:52:55am

Ugh. Our village water supply is at that part of the year where we turn over all the water in the water tower (overflow the tower), then pump five gallons of chlorine dioxide (normal water treatment bleach) into the water system.

This to prevent changing temperatures from stirring up microscopic critters in the water and contaminating the water system.

Unfortunately, because our water is normally not treated at all, it makes for a very strong bleach smell for a couple days. The treated water just reached my house this evening.

In about a week or so the chlorine should be out of the water system and it will be ready for winter.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:01:53am

Wow, it’s going to be hot in the east.

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:04:12am

Here it will be cooler. Tonight 49°F in thunderstorms, tomorrow sunny and 82°F.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:27:42am

Pretty good article here from the BBC about the ongoing Chinese real estate crisis. I feel bad for a lot of the folks it discusses in the article - they’ve basically been screwed and they’ve sunk a sizeable amount of their personal wealth into property (something on the order of 70% of Chinese household wealth is tied up in real estate and that sector alone accounts for some 30% of China’s GDP).

bbc.com

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silverdolphin  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:29:14am

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Long opinion piece, Scientific American, October 1, 2023

Aside from physical and economic issues, the public has never supported Moon or Mars bases (except one poll in July 1969), and ethical considerations.

Why We’ll Never Live in Space

“Medical, financial and ethical hurdles stand in the way of the dream to settle in space”

Polling about NASA’s role has consistently shown space exploration as the least-desired mission for the agency. Items which get the most support are things such as monitoring climate change, Earth sciences, &c.

The article also notes that the reason space nerds will most often give for space exploration is the technology generated with civilian applications. This is a red herring, as if you want to invest in those things you can invest in them directly.

Traveling the globe in sailing vessels was very dangerous 400 ywars ago.Not only the elements killed 1000s (rogue waves still are dangerous) but a lack of understanding of human health (ie scurvy) killed even more (the British would have had a much easier time with the Revolution if scrvy had not caused so much distress in its Navy.). It took over 200 years to find a cure for scurvy and almost 400 to understand what caused it.

No one knew for certain what wealth would be available at the end of voyages then, either. NAd getting some colonies started in North America was also painstaking.

Now space is a lot more complicated and I think it will be a long, ong time before we are lving in the solar system on a casual basis.But it took several hundred years to be able to do that when living in America. What will we be doing in space 200 years fom now?

Here is how I think it will progress. Robotics will have a massive presence in space. First they will be active in exploring and mining asteroids/the Moon. The wealth will not be in gold but in the elements needed to make things. Prospecting near Earth asteroids with spectroscopy. Two, robots will use the raw material to build what we need in space. Such as space-based solar which will capture solar power that would ever reach the Earth. Access to raw materials and virtually unlimited power will result in major industries moving into space, with robots again doing the real capitalism of making things that can be returned to Earth for use. You likely do not need gravity to build a car. Or weave a shirt. Polluting industries with large power needs (ie aluminum or paper) will find a haven in space. The Earth will have a chabe to recover.

For a long time, human in space will likely be short, much like it is now with the ISS, with engineers working locally in space on the robotic foundries when needed. I expect the rich will have a presence due to large casinos being built for vacation spots beyond the reach of international laws. And maybe, in 200 years, we will have gained enough understanding of human health to overcome many of the physical problems mentioned in the article. Just as limes did with scurvy.

It took ovr 400 years to be able to safely travel around the Earth without consequence. I htink it will take less to accomplish that is space. But no one alive tosay will see that.

Musk is crazy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:29:46am

From the Cleveland Clinic (I’d like to know how they determined this):

There are some other things we know about déjà vu, though researchers aren’t exactly sure why. For example, you’re more susceptible to déjà vu if you:

Have a high level of education.
Travel a lot.
Remember your dreams.
Hold liberal beliefs.

and

Experiencing déjà vu doesn’t mean you’re having a seizure. In some cases, though, it can be a symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy, a seizure disorder that starts in the temporal lobe area of your brain.

(more)

I have left temporal lobe epilepsy, but only experience vujà dé (the feeling I’ve experienced none of this in my life ever). /s

Deja Vu: What It Is and Why It Happens

“Healthy people can experience this, but it can also be a symptom of a neurological issue”

(I’m thinking “can be a symptom of a neurological issue” fits in with “extremely rare”)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:41:14am

The Christian terrorist was given the minimum jail sentence. She also says it was not a political act as she Lies for Jesus.

Judge sentences a woman who investigators say burned a Wyoming abortion clinic to 5 years in prison (Associated Press, nine hours ago).

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Emotional and physical abuse by parents who expected her to someday play a “supporting role” in her own life in deference to a future husband featured in the childhood of a woman who burned what was to be Wyoming’s first full-service abortion clinic in at least a decade, a judge said Thursday in handing down the minimum prison sentence for the crime.

New details behind the 2022 arson at Wellspring Health Access in Casper, delaying the clinic’s opening by almost a year, emerged as Lorna Roxanne Green, 22, was sentenced to five years in prison and three years probation.

In addition, Green will have to pay “very, very substantial” restitution that is yet to be determined but will be “well over $280,000,” U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson said.

Green said little at the hearing but through her attorney, Ryan Semerad, told the court she acted alone, accepted responsibility and didn’t intend to cause fear or make a political statement but failed to handle her strong emotions about the clinic.

(more at AP)

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silverdolphin  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:42:22am

re: #146 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From the Cleveland Clinic (I’d like to know how they determined this):

and

(more)

I have left temporal lobe epilepsy, but only experience vujà dé (the feeling I’ve experienced none of this in my life ever). /s

Deja Vu: What It Is and Why It Happens

“Healthy people can experience this, but it can also be a symptom of a neurological issue”

(I’m thinking “can be a symptom of a neurological issue” fits in with “extremely rare”)

For me, déjà vu almost always seems to be attributable to dream memories.my dreams today incredibly cinematic, with me as the camera.Some are big budget special effects driven and others more well intimate. I often write them down and I sometimes think some of them should be turned into screen treatments (I had one last night that was a Mission Impossible plot, with someone like Tom Cruise leading me around). Heck, I’ll sometimes rerun a sequence because it was not working. There is some dream illogic and often the plot is not strictly linear.but often visually very much like a movie. So if I happen to run into someting that as similar to the dream ‘movie’ it feels like I have done this before. All my déjà vu have been visual in nature.

Anyway, I only started puting this together as I have been working on havibg vivid dreams and remembering them. When I was younger I never remembered my dreams so had no way to see if they connected with déjà vu. But now, most of them seemto be connected to a dream memory.

No if I couldonly have a great explanation for my precognitive episdoes so I couldmake them work better. Kinda of a future déjà vu.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:48:20am

re: #148 silverdolphin

I don’t recall any dreams.

My sleep is interrupted every couple hours, so it’s possible I don’t reach the state where dreaming is normal. I dunno, I’m not a neurologist.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:13:49am

re: #147 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This was a direct act of Christian terrorism.

Some years ago, Wyoming put forth a state constitution referendum prohibiting requiring compliance with state directives about medical care (this was in response to the passage of the ACA). It overwhelmingly passed.

Fast forward to recent times, the state Supreme Court ruled the referendum meant the state could not regulate abortion. (Wyoming thus became more liberal about that subject than most Blue states.)

In response, a group sought to open a women’s clinic in Casper, which would serve women in Wyoming and the Nebraska Panhandle.

This Christian terrorist was not about to let the state or the courts violate the laws of her religion.

Over at BlueSky, Christians are already trying to paint her as “mentally ill” rather than a terrorist to minimise the fact Christianity is what drove her terrorism.

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ericblair  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:19:37am

re: #144 Dr Lizardo

Pretty good article here from the BBC about the ongoing Chinese real estate crisis. I feel bad for a lot of the folks it discusses in the article - they’ve basically been screwed and they’ve sunk a sizeable amount of their personal wealth into property (something on the order of 70% of Chinese household wealth is tied up in real estate and that sector alone accounts for some 30% of China’s GDP).

bbc.com

This crisis is really, really bad, and the Chinese government is trying to land this particular plane after the engines have fallen off and the cabin is on fire. Chinese people don’t have a lot of options to invest, so real estate was really the only game in town. The government liked it because this sort of malinvestment could magically turn debt into GDP for years and years.

The contagion risk here for the entire economy is obvious. Huge numbers of people working these projects are out of work, and people’s life savings are gone. Despite China calling itself “communist”, there’s hardly any state social support and as far as retirement is concerned, you’re on your own.

More worrisome for the government is the fact that people are banding together outside of government-run and -approved organizations, and these new groups have a habit of growing into actual political forces.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:32:49am

re: #151 ericblair

Yeah, this crisis is going to bite China really hard. Some of the ideas, like the “three red lines”, weren’t bad ideas per se - but they came about a decade too late. If those reforms had been done in 2010 or so, the situation wouldn’t have gotten so out of hand.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:33:16am

re: #151 ericblair

The government liked it because this sort of malinvestment could magically turn debt into GDP for years and years.

.

And here too.

Home ownership is often, or at least it was, preached as central to the American way of life.

And thus mortgages become important to the American way of life.

That is why the current high mortgage rates are problematic for the Democratic party.

If by next fall the mortgage rates continue to climb, the consequences for Biden may be too much.

Any debt on one person’s books is an asset on another’s.

That makes the world go ‘round.

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steve_davis  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:37:17am

re: #80 Captain Ron

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That is a firing squad offense, unless they’re wearing Russian uniform underneath. It’s like all those moments in the O’brian books where Aubrey waits until the last possible moment to run the true flag up the mast. That’s considered fair. Fighting in opponents’ uniform gets you summarily executed.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:42:39am

.

Jordan Stephens reads a musician’s fiery reply to a TV company asking to use his music for free



..

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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:49:42am

Ahhhhh. The fall Frog bite has started on Lake Travis.
Nice 16” fatty.
Every cut has one sitting in ambush as the fall stuffing gets underway.

BTW, all my fish are released to do it again.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:52:52am

I’m off to bed.

I’ll catch y’all later.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:57:40am

re: #17 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Apparently Al Di Meola had a heart attack on stage in Bucharest. If he dies I’m gonna kick his ass! I’m still not over Holdsworth.

We were also big fans of him from the late 70’s…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:58:32am

re: #24 Vicious Babushka

Why are there only 3 of them if it is a quartet?

Fourth member is waiting to be resurrected…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:01:39am

re: #34 Barefoot Grin

While his frustrations are understandable, and we’ve seen many others go his route, Chotiner does all he can to basically say ‘Biden is as close to what you want as you’re likely to get.’ But Daou now has on these different lenses and can’t let himself see it.

One votes for the better candidate among those available. In our system there are only two (as there are in other systems that hold runoff elections).

Holding out for the ideal is for idealists, romantics and other suckers ready to be manipulated by cynical Machiavellians

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:05:48am

re: #117 Joe Bacon ✅

Speak “friend” and enter!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:07:07am

re: #122 piratedan

I don’t know how ABBA was able to avoid sounding too saccharine, but they did. I always thought that they were able to tread that line on the side of sincerity instead of kitsch.

And they are nowhere as big in America as the were/are in Europe. Here they are second only to the Beatles, and when it comes to Saturday Night disco or cover tribute bands, even bigger.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:08:47am

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m sure this will go over well with Russia. From Estonia’s public broadcaster, in English

Estonia’s parliament committee recommends using Königsberg not Kaliningrad (Eesti Rahvusringhääling, September 26, 2023)

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is partially based on their claim that Ukraine has no historical right to exist as a separate nation.

Russia’s claim to the Königsberg/Kaliningrad exclave is much, much more tenuous.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:14:48am

re: #153 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That is why the current high mortgage rates are problematic for the Democratic party.

If by next fall the mortgage rates continue to climb, the consequences for Biden may be too much.

That is one of the main things that killed Jimmy Carter’s re-election campaign, I recall home mortgage rates peaking at 18%

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:15:35am

Wendell Wave has reached the end of the thread.

Back to you, Walter…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:16:36am

re: #146 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From the Cleveland Clinic (I’d like to know how they determined this):

and

(more)

I have left temporal lobe epilepsy, but only experience vujà dé (the feeling I’ve experienced none of this in my life ever). /s

Deja Vu: What It Is and Why It Happens

(I’m thinking “can be a symptom of a neurological issue” fits in with “extremely rare”)

And here I thought it was a glitch in The Matrix.

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TarHellion  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:21:39am

Pondered over the birbie putt so long, the green needed to mowed again.

Click to Reveal

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:24:19am

Time to do some real world stuff. Back later.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:45:20am

Some drive time music, and I don’t think it is a coincidence.

Abba - Dancing Queen

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:51:00am

This word broke me. I’m actually angry.

Click to Reveal

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:51:25am

re: #169 Shropshire Slasher

Some drive time music, and I don’t think it is a coincidence.

They took a leaf from the Beatles She Loves You and put the chorus right up front. Major attention grabber and it immediately fills the floor at any Euro disco evening.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 3:51:40am

re: #170 Nerdy Fish

This word broke me. I’m actually angry.

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Let it flow through you…

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jeffreyw  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:08:48am

spice cake, cream cheese frosting with whipped cream and hazelnut sprinkles

Good morning!

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TarHellion  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:11:19am

re: #170 Nerdy Fish

Don’t make Nerdy Fish angry. You would not like him when he is angry.

mr mcgee…..dont make me angry

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:24:23am

re: #173 jeffreyw

Morning. Had Tacos for dinner last night.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:32:48am

re: #170 Nerdy Fish

If it makes you feel any better…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:36:52am

re: #175 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Morning. Had Tacos for dinner last night.

amen.

fajitas are on for this weekend

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:39:32am

re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

amen.

fajitas are on for this weekend

Chicken, beef or both?

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jeffreyw  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:43:48am

re: #175 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Morning. Had Tacos for dinner last night.

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Mmmm… Olé!

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:43:55am

re: #127 wrenchwench

Ron Wyden is great.

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…showing that more than 1.4 million wealthy Americans had neglected to file a federal return.

“Neglected”?
No.
Definitely not neglected

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jeffreyw  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:45:28am

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:47:06am

re: #136 DodgerFan1988

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Prior restraint is ok when they do it

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:50:17am

Well, unless there is a massive shift, it does look like I’m taking another holiday. How long it will last is unknown. No saying anything we all don’t know; fter Reagan and then Gingrich, the GQP devolved into party over country. They should have more than their paychecks taken, there should be fines involved for not doing their constitutionally mandated duties.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:50:49am

re: #145 silverdolphin

Traveling the globe in sailing vessels was very dangerous 400 ywars ago.Not only the elements killed 1000s (rogue waves still are dangerous) but a lack of understanding of human health (ie scurvy) killed even more (the British would have had a much easier time with the Revolution if scrvy had not caused so much distress in its Navy.). It took over 200 years to find a cure for scurvy and almost 400 to understand what caused it.

….

It also created the need to develop better clocks and watches

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:52:05am

Pulls out a birbie.
Wordle 832 3/6

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 4:54:03am

re: #178 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Chicken, beef or both?

chikken

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:00:53am

re: #181 jeffreyw

Now I’m hungry… I just read an article at Petapixel about fast food photography and how companies fake it. Seems to me you could teach most of them a worthy lesson or two.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:01:45am

re: #180 Dangerman

“Neglected”?
No.
Definitely not neglected

They didn’t need to, they didn’t make any income.

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jeffreyw  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:02:09am

Sweet Sounds Of Heaven (Edit)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:04:20am

re: #187 Rightwingconspirator

Now I’m hungry… I just read an article at Petapixel about fast food photography and how companies fake it. Seems to me you could teach most of them a worthy lesson or two.

I heard a story from a fellow who used to photograph food for advertising. He said they would take the filling out of Oreos and replace it with plaster of Paris to make them look thicker.

He also said that the cleaning crew would eat the leftover food from their shoots, and that they also unwittingly consumed the plaster-filled Oreos.

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jeffreyw  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:05:27am

re: #187 Rightwingconspirator

Now I’m hungry… I just read an article at Petapixel about fast food photography and how companies fake it. Seems to me you could teach most of them a worthy lesson or two.

Thanks, most generous of you to say that.

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:11:40am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:13:03am

re: #187 Rightwingconspirator

Now I’m hungry… I just read an article at Petapixel about fast food photography and how companies fake it. Seems to me you could teach most of them a worthy lesson or two.

Or just take then to Court for false advertising.

Burger King must face whopper of a lawsuit alleging burgers are too small, says judge

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gocart mozart  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:17:18am
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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:34:15am

While according to wapo

“A contingent of far-right House Republicans are plotting an attempt to remove Kevin McCarthy as House speaker as early as next week, a move that would throw the chamber into further disarray in the middle of a potential government shutdown,“

They think Emmer

At least they’re trying to line someone up before axing McC

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:36:39am

re: #188 Shropshire Slasher

They didn’t need to, they didn’t make any income.

I get your point but there’s a lot of stuff that needs to be reported even if there’s no income.

I’ll make a sweeping statement that no one at that level has zero reportable items

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:40:08am
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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:43:10am

Apparently

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:44:36am

re: #198 Dangerman

Apparently

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May she rest in peace. Wait for the politicization of her death in 3… 2… 1…

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:46:54am

re: #198 Dangerman

Apparently

[Embedded content]

Abc has it now

abc7news.com

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:48:27am

re: #86 silverdolphin

Large language models.
Machine learning.
Algorithms.

When it boils down, it’s all about taking vast sums of data and crunching it and recombining it based on algorithms. The system has a feedback loop where it sees prior results and includes feedback in the new outputs.

Companies have been doing this for decades, but computing power and the algorithms are now more sophisticated and able to crunch data faster. That means output comes faster.

But it isn’t creating something entirely new. It’s a mashup of what came before.

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:48:45am

Feinstein passed.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:48:49am

Breaking:

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:51:25am

RIP Dianne. 😢

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:52:59am

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No Malarkey!  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:54:11am

Core PCE, the Feds preferred inflation measure, declined to a 3.9% annualized rate from 4.1% the previous month, the slowest rate of inflation in two years.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:54:48am

On a less cynical note: We may begrudge the events leading up to her passing, and wish she had retired in a timely fashion, in full possession of her faculties. The fact remains that she had a long and extremely distinguished career as one of the premier female politicians of American history. The final hours of her era should not be darkened by the effects of her extreme age; she died doing what she loved, what she knew best, what she believed was right.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:55:01am

re: #198 Dangerman

She served her country well. May she rest in peace.

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:55:07am

Took about 7 minutes for it to hit the airwaves.

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:55:24am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:55:35am

re: #195 Dangerman

Raskin says he heard directly from Republicans on the House floor that the right-wing believes Kevin McCarthy set up today’s inquiry hearing to fail.

Raskin: They couldn’t believe that such a disaster would just happen by accident

True Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed…

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 5:57:00am

Politic must still go on

“It means you can’t love your country only when you win.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:00:20am

re: #212 Dangerman

Politic must still go on

“It means you can’t love your country only when you win.”

How can you love a loser?

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:01:16am

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:02:17am

re: #212 Dangerman

Politic must still go on

“It means you can’t love your country only when you win.”

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The best part of that speech for me was when he quoted Trump making death threats and then said the silence from the media was deafening. He put them to shame.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:04:20am

re: #215 darthstar

The best part of that speech for me was when he quoted Trump making death threats and then said the silence from the media was deafening. He put them to shame.

The media is getting the credit they so rightfully deserve

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:08:18am

re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So, wait. Comer and the other GOP extremists on the committee knew that this would be a disaster, and set it up to fail, knowing it would be a disaster?

And that they were doing it to benefit who exactly? McCarthy?

The Committee includes multiple members of the HFC (Biggs, Higgins, Gosar, Jordan, Donalds, MTG, Boebert, Luna, etc.), and they did nothing to stop the proceedings from showing that they had precisely ZIP on Joe Biden that merited an inquiry.

None of the members of the committee realized that prepared testimony from Turley indicated he would state under oath that there was nothing here supporting impeachment, and yet they went forward anyways?

Or is it the conspiracy that Comer had it in to kill the inquiry out of the gate, and they can say that they did what Trump asked *shruggy emoji*. Oh well?

I guess if all you believe in is conspiracy theories, everything that happens is itself a conspiracy?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:08:30am

re: #215 darthstar

The best part of that speech for me was when he quoted Trump making death threats and then said the silence from the media was deafening. He put them to shame.

The media are loving DJT: he is transitioning from giving them a 24/7 political/crime/family scandal reality TV show right to a murder mystery…ratings gold!!!

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steve_davis  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:09:15am

re: #212 Dangerman

Politic must still go on

“It means you can’t love your country only when you win.”

[Embedded content]

i heard some parts of his speech yesterday. I think he may be working with a speech therapist, because there were some portions where he raised his voice and suddenly sounded like Biden from 20 years ago. I think old people start talking like old people without really meaning to. It just sort of becomes a gradual slide. He may have just needed someone to maybe let him listen to his own speeches and to say, “Hey, do you hear how you sound like you’re wandering around the house mumbling like you’re trying to find what you did with your teeth?”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:10:49am

re: #219 steve_davis

i heard some parts of his speech yesterday. I think he may be working with a speech therapist, because there were some portions where he raised his voice and suddenly sounded like Biden from 20 years ago. I think old people start talking like old people without really meaning to. It just sort of becomes a gradual slide. He may have just needed someone to maybe let him listen to his own speeches and to say, “Hey, do you hear how you sound like you’re wandering around the house mumbling like you’re trying to find what you did with your teeth?”

I am sure it costs him a lot of effort, but unlike his chief opponent, he is willing to make that effort on a regular basis and not complain when things start to get dificult for him.

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:10:58am

re: #217 lawhawk

So, wait. Comer and the other GOP extremists on the committee knew that this would be a disaster, and set it up to fail, knowing it would be a disaster?

And that they were doing it to benefit who exactly? McCarthy?

The Committee includes multiple members of the HFC (Biggs, Higgins, Gosar, Jordan, Donalds, MTG, Boebert, Luna, etc.), and they did nothing to stop the proceedings from showing that they had precisely ZIP on Joe Biden that merited an inquiry.

None of the members of the committee realized that prepared testimony from Turley indicated he would state under oath that there was nothing here supporting impeachment, and yet they went forward anyways?

Or is it the conspiracy that Comer had it in to kill the inquiry out of the gate, and they can say that they did what Trump asked *shruggy emoji*. Oh well?

I guess if all you believe in is conspiracy theories, everything that happens is itself a conspiracy?

I think they’re working backwards: the meeting failed, and therefore McCarthy must have known it would fail, so it’s his fault, not the people who know Biden is a criminal.

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:15:37am

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:15:37am

Weather warnings/watches for NYC metro as latest storm expected to drop 3-5 inches and potentially up to 7 inches through tonight.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:16:38am

re: #222 darthstar

Every fall, I think back to the Monty Python skit where the leaf falls and screams, followed by a few more leaves, each screaming, until every leaf falls from the tree and screams. We sometimes do that while driving around and see leaves falling…

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:16:58am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:17:06am

re: #224 lawhawk

Every fall, I think back to the Monty Python skit where the leaf falls and screams, followed by a few more leaves, each screaming, until every leaf falls from the tree and screams. We sometimes do that while driving around and see leaves falling…

I don’t recall that sketch…

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:17:56am

re: #217 lawhawk

They knew it would be a disaster but KEVIN LET THEM DO IT! He should have taken it to the floor for a vote first and stopped them.

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:18:59am

re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I don’t recall that sketch…

Monty Pythons Meaning of Life - Suicidal Leaves

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:19:07am

SOOOOOOO…this Proud Baby was hiding in his home all the time…

Naples resident Christopher Worrell, convicted for his part in Jan. 6 Capitol riot, has been arrested at his home by the FBI, a Collier County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson confirmed Thursday night.

The sheriff’s office assisted the FBI with the warrant. When it was served, Worrell was home.

Worrell, a member of the Proud Boys extremist group, went missing in August just as he was about to face sentencing for multiple crimes he committed during the riot. He was found guilty in May. Prosecutors had asked for a sentence that includes 14 years in prison, fines and other conditions.

naplesnews.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:19:47am

re: #228 darthstar

aha, I did not really like that film and have only watched it once.

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:20:52am

re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

aha, I did not really like that film and have only watched it once.

The fish in the restaurant at the beginning are great.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:22:24am

re: #231 darthstar

The fish in the restaurant at the beginning are great.

There are more than a few funny bits to The Meaning of Life but overall I found it disappointing.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:22:38am

So sad for Idaho women…

Appeals court lifts partial block on Idaho abortion ban

And guess which three judges overruled the judge who issued the injunction…

However, a 9th Circuit panel consisting of three appointees of President Donald Trump said Thursday that the Idaho Supreme Court has since clarified its interpretation of the Idaho statute, so the two laws no longer appear to be in conflict.

Yep Three Federalist Society Assholes Trump packed the court with…

politico.com

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:23:22am

re: #198 Dangerman

Apparently

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RIP, Diane. She was a good Senator for California. I didn’t always agree with her positions, but, overall, I was happy with her and she always had my vote. I still remember her announcing the murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by Dan White. If you’ve never seen a person in complete shock, watch the video.

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:25:26am

re: #232 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are more than a few funny bits to The Meaning of Life but overall I found it disappointing.

Agreed. But it did give us the song ‘Every Sperm is Sacred’…growing up in Catholic school that was important - plus we were all choirboys so we could sing along in the halls.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:26:40am

She hasn’t had her funeral arrangements set and already the Very Serious Assholes are whining about who Newsom will choose as her replacement.

For Cthulhu’s Sake GIVE IT A F’N REST folks!

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:27:22am

re: #151 ericblair

This crisis is really, really bad, and the Chinese government is trying to land this particular plane after the engines have fallen off and the cabin is on fire. Chinese people don’t have a lot of options to invest, so real estate was really the only game in town. The government liked it because this sort of malinvestment could magically turn debt into GDP for years and years.

The contagion risk here for the entire economy is obvious. Huge numbers of people working these projects are out of work, and people’s life savings are gone. Despite China calling itself “communist”, there’s hardly any state social support and as far as retirement is concerned, you’re on your own.

More worrisome for the government is the fact that people are banding together outside of government-run and -approved organizations, and these new groups have a habit of growing into actual political forces.

The linked BBC articles are also bad indicators, at least for now. One is on burnout and unemployment among youth—expected to keep up the 9-9/6 days a week work schedule, some (no percentages available) are checking out and living with parents while getting crushed by the unemployment of younger workers who will willingly endure those hardships (to a point) to have a job. Xi Jinping: “eat bitterness” [like I did in the Cultural Revolution, I guess].

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:28:01am

re: #235 darthstar

Agreed. But it did give us the song ‘Every Sperm is Sacred’…growing up in Catholic school that was important - plus we were all choirboys so we could sing along in the halls.

Yes, it had its moments…

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:28:36am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:29:29am

re: #237 Barefoot Grin

More worrisome for the government is the fact that people are banding together outside of government-run and -approved organizations, and these new groups have a habit of growing into actual political forces.

from Cultural Revolution to revolutionary culture…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:29:46am

Georgia Republicans boot state senator who led charge to impeach Fani Willis

State Senator Colton Moore announced on Thursday that the state GOP voted to oust him over his calls to defund and investigate the district attorney in the wake of her sweeping RICO indictment that named former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies as co-conspirators in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.

“Today’s removal is a direct result of me calling on my Republican colleagues in the Senate to do their job and sign onto an emergency session to investigate Fani Willis,” Moore said in a statement shared with Newsweek. “The Georgia Constitution clearly outlines the legislature’s power to call an emergency session to investigate a judicial officer. After urging my Republican Senate colleagues to join me…they responded by acting like children and throwing me out of the caucus.”

Days after Willis indicted Trump, Moore asked Governor Brian Kemp to call for a special session and bring legislators back to the state Capitol to review Willis’ actions in the probe and “determine if they warrant impeachment.” Under state law, there can only be a special session at the governor’s request or if three-fifths of both legislative chambers sign a letter demanding it. While Republicans have the majority in both chambers, their majorities are not large enough to clear the three-fifths threshold.

newsweek.com

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:33:23am

re: #236 Joe Bacon ✅

From May of this year.

Two years ago after he picked Sen. Alex Padilla to fill an empty seat, Newsom promised on MSNBC to select a Black woman for any future vacancies, which was widely understood to be a nod to Rep. Barbara Lee.

That, however, was before Lee jumped into the Senate race; before powerful Democrats like former Speaker Nancy Pelosi went all in for one of her rivals, Rep. Adam Schiff; and before some of Newsom’s own allies went to work for the third candidate in the race, Rep. Katie Porter.

“Newsom always says that he hates these” appointments, said a California Democratic strategist who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “He talks about how you make one person temporarily happy and piss off a million others. I didn’t really believe him on the others — but I do believe him on this one.

“Any decision pisses off someone important,” the strategist added. “There’s more of a downside than upside to just about anything you do.”

nbcnews.com

more recently

As three high-profile California Democrats vie to replace retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he would not appoint any of them to the seat, should it become vacant sooner than expected.

That decision could be a blow to Rep. Barbara Lee, since her allies had reason to believe she was Newsom’s first choice to fill a potential vacancy. But that was before she entered the Senate race, where she is currently trailing in polls behind better-known and better-funded fellow Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Katie Porter.

In his most direct comments on the matter yet, Newsom said in the interview with Chuck Todd for NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that airs Sunday that he would instead make an “interim appointment” to replace Feinstein if necessary.

“Yes. Interim appointment. I don’t want to get involved in the primary,” Newsom said. “It would be completely unfair to the Democrats that have worked their tail off. That primary is just a matter of months away. I don’t want to tip the balance of that.”

nbcnews.com

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:33:29am

re: #241 Joe Bacon ✅

So it seems that prosecuting and convicting Trump is the popular opinion, even among Republicans. It’s a start.

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sagehen  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:47:39am

re: #207 Nerdy Fish

On a less cynical note: We may begrudge the events leading up to her passing, and wish she had retired in a timely fashion, in full possession of her faculties. The fact remains that she had a long and extremely distinguished career as one of the premier female politicians of American history. The final hours of her era should not be darkened by the effects of her extreme age; she died doing what she loved, what she knew best, what she believed was right.

In 1985 as mayor, over fierce opposition she pushed through a plan to spend $30 million of city money upgrading Candlestick Park. Including earthquake retrofits.

In 1989, when Loma Prieta happened during the World Series, twenty thousand people didn’t die and another twenty thousand weren’t injured because the stadium didn’t collapse on them.

Money well spent.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:55:08am

re: #244 sagehen

In 1985 as mayor, over fierce opposition she pushed through a plan to spend $30 million of city money upgrading Candlestick Park. Including earthquake retrofits.

In 1989, when Loma Prieta happened during the World Series, twenty thousand people didn’t die and another twenty thousand weren’t injured because the stadium didn’t collapse on them.

Money well spent.

That money could have been invested privately in the stock market and produced beter yields…

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:55:09am

Mastodon

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:57:10am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:57:25am

re: #198 Dangerman

Reported in AP.

apnews.com

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:57:36am

re: #246 darthstar

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RIP. But it really is time for the Democrats to self-impose term limits.

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:58:36am

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:59:21am

re: #249 Barefoot Grin

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:59:45am

re: #249 Barefoot Grin

RIP. But it really is time for the Democrats to self-impose term limits.

The capitol has steps. Make it to the top unassisted and you’re good to go.

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Jay C  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:59:52am

re: #207 Nerdy Fish

On a less cynical note: We may begrudge the events leading up to her passing, and wish she had retired in a timely fashion, in full possession of her faculties. The fact remains that she had a long and extremely distinguished career as one of the premier female politicians of American history. The final hours of her era should not be darkened by the effects of her extreme age; she died doing what she loved, what she knew best, what she believed was right.

This.

My thoughts exactly: after Dianne Feinstein’s lengthy and remarkable career in state and national politics, it just seems a shame that she is going to be remembered (in the short term, anyway) mainly for the twilight of that career, and that mainly negatively.

RIP.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 29, 2023 • 6:59:53am

HALF-STAFF NOTICE, entire USA.

The Flag of the United States should be placed at half-staff across the United States, as a mark of respect for the death of California US Senator Diane Feinstein.

In accordance with the US Flag Code, the flag shall be placed at half-staff on the day of and the day following a sitting US Senator’s death, unless otherwise modified by proclamation of the President or Governor of California (for that state).

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:00:09am

re: #241 Joe Bacon ✅

Since when does the GOP hold their own accountable?

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:00:24am

re: #251 lawhawk

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

this is a great opportunity to put a forward thinking, fresh-faced and vibrant 75 year old in the senate

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sagehen  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:00:24am

re: #242 Shropshire Slasher

From May of this year.

nbcnews.com

more recently

nbcnews.com

The only interim appointment that makes sense, if he’s automatically excluding the primary contenders… is Jerry Brown.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:00:31am

All that’s missing is the shark.

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:01:30am

Always enjoy this one…

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:01:40am

re: #239 darthstar

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Squirrel AI art

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:02:35am

Cheese and Crackers trial procedurals getting underway, starting with voir dire of jurors. Process is being laid out and timeline. No objections from any of the parties thus far.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:03:48am

re: #185 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Pulls out a birbie.
Wordle 832 3/6

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Par here.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:05:37am

re: #261 lawhawk

Oh, and I’ll say that I was burying the lede here.

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sagehen  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:07:52am

re: #258 lawhawk

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All that’s missing is the shark.

He’s there.

NYC sharks are too smart to stick their fin up and be seen. But just under the surface…

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steve_davis  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:10:16am

re: #166 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And here I thought it was a glitch in The Matrix.

had a friend explain years ago (no idea if it’s true) that deja vu is basically just a foul-up where something gets processed into long-term memory before it gets processed in shrt-term memory. So you wander around feeling sure you’ve been some place before because your current sense is built around your initial assessment that accidentally went into the wrong storage cabinet.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:13:59am

re: #265 steve_davis

had a friend explain years ago (no idea if it’s true) that deja vu is basically just a foul-up where something gets processed into long-term memory before it gets processed in shrt-term memory. So you wander around feeling sure you’ve been some place before because your current sense is built around your initial assessment that accidentally went into the wrong storage cabinet.

It used to happen to me semi-frequently, but I haven’t experienced it in a long while. I wonder if it’s age related or if it’s just me.

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Teukka  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:15:56am

re: #156 Dave In Austin

Ahhhhh. The fall Frog bite has started on Lake Travis.
Nice 16” fatty.
Every cut has one sitting in ambush as the fall stuffing gets underway.

BTW, all my fish are released to do it again.

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Now that be a proper fish…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:16:11am

re: #246 darthstar

Even though I am from PA I too will say RIP Dianne Feinstein. Sh paved a way for quite a few women to follow her.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:17:39am

re: #264 sagehen

He’s there.

NYC sharks are too smart to stick their fin up and be seen. But just under the surface…

You think I’m gonna fall for that hook routine, you rube?

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:18:12am

re: #253 Jay C

This.

My thoughts exactly: after Dianne Feinstein’s lengthy and remarkable career in state and national politics, it just seems a shame that she is going to be remembered (in the short term, anyway) mainly for the twilight of that career, and that mainly negatively.

RIP.

Only by the people who pay so much attention to politics that they know about Republicans threats on blocking an appointment to the Judiciary.

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mmmirele  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:19:35am

re: #121 wrenchwench

The college radio station is playing ABBA.

I don’t know what’s wrong with kids these days, but it seems to be closely related to whatever was wrong with kids in my day.

Wow. That’s kind of like me in 1978 listening to something from 1933. And I know I didn’t do that.

In other news, Fuji-kun is sitting in the window and chittering at something outside. He did the same thing yesterday, I looked, and I didn’t see anything obvious (bird, another cat). But there must be something out there because Sakura-chan is doing the same thing.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:20:19am

re: #270 Belafon

Only by the people who pay so much attention to politics that they know about Republicans threats on blocking an appointment to the Judiciary.

This is different somewhat than accommodating a retirement.

If Mitch blocks this…..

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:20:48am

re: #255 Eclectic Cyborg

Since when does the GOP hold their own accountable?

They are going beyond that and spinning The Dems’ efforts to oust their own Menendez as “imposing their own preliminary judgement on him and not waiting for the courts”, which is what the GOP does, except that it also ignores court rulings against its own people…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:21:25am

re: #259 darthstar

Always enjoy this one…

Humpty Dumpty sat on his bottom, Humpty Dumpty had a great autumn.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:21:57am

re: #271 mmmirele

Wow. That’s kind of like me in 1978 listening to something from 1933. And I know I didn’t do that.

In other news, Fuji-kun is sitting in the window and chittering at something outside. He did the same thing yesterday, I looked, and I didn’t see anything obvious (bird, another cat). But there must be something out there because Sakura-chan is doing the same thing.

Beware. They are plotting. Trying to look nonchalant

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gocart mozart  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:22:08am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:22:20am

Oh my!

Did Princess Ivanka turn on Daddy?

newsweek.com

Ivanka Trump likely cooperated with the government in her father’s NY fraud case: legal expert

A prominent attorney says Ivanka Trump’s inclusion on a list of potential prosecution witnesses in her father’s New York fraud case would “usually indicate some form of cooperation,” Newsweek reported.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:22:24am

re: #184 Dangerman

It also created the need to develop better clocks and watches

Longitude, John Harrison & GMT

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:23:29am

re: #265 steve_davis

had a friend explain years ago (no idea if it’s true) that deja vu is basically just a foul-up where something gets processed into long-term memory before it gets processed in shrt-term memory. So you wander around feeling sure you’ve been some place before because your current sense is built around your initial assessment that accidentally went into the wrong storage cabinet.

I have read about that as well.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:24:21am

re: #273 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They are going beyond that and spinning their efforts to oust their own Menendez as “imposing their own preliminary judgement on him and not waiting for the courts”, which is what the GOP does, except that it also ignores court rulings against its own people…

Congress should maintain a higher standard than “convicted in court”
And
Politicians should not be politically indicted (ie as a tool/tactic/weapon)

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:26:23am

Personally, I wish Schiff and Porter would drop out and stay in the House for a while longer. They’re effective there.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:26:32am

re: #267 Teukka

Now that be a proper fish…

That would be a “Keep” in competition. I got 2 of those and few rats yesterday. Lake Travis only has a couple of private ramps open now due to the drought. I have a friend who’s a guide in Lago Vista…….

The boat ramp is becoming more interesting by the day.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:26:35am

re: #278 BeenHereAwhile

Longitude, John Harrison & GMT

A great book

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:27:07am

re: #279 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I have read about that as well.

I thought I did once
But then,
You know

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:27:20am

re: #272 Dangerman

Guess we’ll be testing that theory within the next few weeks.

McConnell will exploit every opportunity to give the GOP caucus an advantage, no matter the circumstances or facts.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:28:34am

re: #284 Dangerman

I thought I did once
But then,
You know

It’s sort of like going shopping and your groceries arrive at home before you do…

Deja food

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:28:39am

re: #277 Joe Bacon ✅

A prominent attorney says Ivanka Trump’s inclusion on a list of potential prosecution witnesses in her father’s New York fraud case would “usually indicate some form of cooperation,” Newsweek reported.

Important word bolded. Adverse witnesses can be called. It is rare, because it is a tough sell, and because the defense can then cross-examine and have a far easier time getting what they want. But regardless of if it is adverse or cooperative, I don’t think he’s going to be all that happy with her after this.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:30:20am

re: #285 lawhawk

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Guess we’ll be testing that theory within the next few weeks.

McConnell will exploit every opportunity to give the GOP caucus an advantage, no matter the circumstances or facts.

Why wait?
Couldn’t the seat on the committee be filled now. A D senator with seniority.
It doesn’t have to be her replacement? what to sense would that make?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:30:43am

re: #277 Joe Bacon ✅

Oh my!

Did Princess Ivanka turn on Daddy?

newsweek.com

Ivanka Trump likely cooperated with the government in her father’s NY fraud case: legal expert

A prominent attorney says Ivanka Trump’s inclusion on a list of potential prosecution witnesses in her father’s New York fraud case would “usually indicate some form of cooperation,” Newsweek reported.

Bill Palmer doesn’t think so.

“Also listed as a witness for the state: Ivanka Trump. This doesn’t mean that she’s “flipped” or cut any sort of deal. More likely she’s being called as a hostile witness against her will.”

New York AG Letitia James lists Ivanka Trump as a trial witness for the state

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steve_davis  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:31:51am

re: #197 Dangerman

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well, yes, obviously. it’s hardly a “scoop” that if Democrats give power to McCarthy, it’s going to be with them getting pretty much whatever they want in terms of power sharing, because clearly McCarthy doesn’t actually have any power to share. They’d make him the titular head with the understanding that Democrats will be able to bring up any bill to the floor for consideration, and that Republicans won’t whip their side on any of those bills. They’ll grant Republicans free rein, so that the 20 or so Republicans desperate to stay employed in Democratic leaning districts can vote in favor of the bills.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:36:20am

re: #289 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

It suggests that AG James believes Ivanka has something important to the case, something she can’t get anywhere else. If I had to guess, Ivanka was involved in some way in the preparation of those documents, or James thinks she can speak to Donald’s (or maybe Jared’s) state of mind - as the causes of action that are going to trial all have an intent component to them.

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BeachDem  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:36:51am

re: #252 darthstar

The capitol has steps. Make it to the top unassisted and you’re good to go.

Or be John Jenrette (he died earlier this year—quite a character)

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:37:15am

re: #289 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I mentioned all of this yesterday. James’ witness list includes Trump, Junior, Eric, and Ivanka as well as Garten and Weisselberg and Cohen, among others.

Trump’s got a witness list of 128 people, including all of the same I mentioned above.

The odds that Ivanka or Eric or Junior turned on daddy are near zero.

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:39:47am

re: #272 Dangerman

This is different somewhat than accommodating a retirement.

If Mitch blocks this…..

True, but the point was more about those of us fretting over her being in the Senate longer than we think she should have been vs the general population who doesn’t really know how things are being run right now.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:40:48am

re: #291 Nerdy Fish

Ivanka was an executive VP and is a fiduciary to the business in that role. She signed documents and witnessed other actions by Trump and his codefendants.

I ascribe nothing in particular to why she’s included on the witness list other than the fact that she’s a party to the misconduct.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:43:04am

re: #295 lawhawk

That all seems pretty straightforward to me.

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steve_davis  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:48:32am

re: #283 Dangerman

A great book

is that the one where he built the clock using some sort of tropical wood because he realized due to the oils in it, it would effectively be self-lubricating as a gear?

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:49:30am

Twilight Circus - Dub Voyage

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dat_said  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:49:57am

InForum (Fargo ND paper): North Dakota Supreme Court strikes down budget bill, requiring special session

ND is going to have its own budget crisis. They (ND Republicans) spent most of the session arguing why expanding free school lunches is evil, restricting women’s health care is god’s work, and books are bad. So, they ended up with a panicked bill voted on in the middle of the night of the last day of the session.

ND Supreme Court decided that the part of the state constitution that says “No bill may embrace more than one subject, which must be expressed in its title;” was violated a wee bit.

Here’s the title of the SB 2015 behind private due to length:

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:50:52am

re: #291 Nerdy Fish

re: #293 lawhawk

re: #295 lawhawk

The only reason she was dismissed from the lawsuit is because the statute of limitations ran out an Appeals Court ruled. But yeah, she was up to her eyeballs in the scheme.

Court dismisses Ivanka Trump from fraud lawsuit against her father

In a ruling on Tuesday, the Appellate Division of New York’s Supreme Court dismissed the claims against Ivanka Trump, ruling that they were barred by the state’s statute of limitations. While claims over alleged wrongdoing after February 2016 were permissible, the court said, Ivanka Trump had stepped back from involvement in the Trump Organization and wasn’t accused in the lawsuit of any misconduct during that later time period.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:51:44am

re: #299 dat_said

Surprised they didn’t take a page from the NE legislature (which Anymouse reported on at length when it happened) when they did the combined abortion and transgender ban: “It’s all healthcare, right?”

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:54:16am

OMG
mastodon.social

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:55:41am

re: #302 Vicious Babushka

Yeah, the flooding in the NYC metro area is pretty bad. Like tropical storm bad.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:56:44am

What took him so long?

thedailybeast.com

Donald Trump has sued a former British MI6 officer who penned the infamous—and still unverified—“golden showers” dossier which claimed that the businessman and eventual president had been “compromised” by Russia (as well as several more salacious accusations). According to U.K. High Court records obtained by The Independent, Trump filed a data protection complaint against Christopher Steele, the founder of Orbis Business Intelligence and the author of the Steele Dossier, a compilation of raw intelligence reports leaked to BuzzFeed in 2017 asserting that Vladimir Putin had attempted to “cultivate” Trump as a presidential frontrunner for “at least five years” and that many Trump campaign officials had secret contacts with Russian agents. The United Kingdom’s Press Association stated that the legal process is set to start in the High Court on Oct. 16.

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jeffreyw  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:58:19am

Mastodon

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:58:52am

re: #304 Joe Bacon ✅

Because he isn’t likely to win that either, despite the more lax defamation laws and rules in the UK.

It’ll be a reminder that he is, in fact, more likely than not a Putin potted plant based on the substantial evidence known thus far.

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gocart mozart  Sep 29, 2023 • 7:59:25am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:00:15am

Judge melts down Mr. Cheese!

Georgia Judge Scott McAfee denied a pair of motions by Trump-aligned lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, including one that asserted he should be immune from prosecution, reported POLITICO’s Kyle Cheney on Friday.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:00:46am

re: #302 Vicious Babushka

This is what the Nat’l Weather Service has on its map.
weather.gov

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dat_said  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:00:50am

re: #195 Dangerman

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While according to wapo

“A contingent of far-right House Republicans are plotting an attempt to remove Kevin McCarthy as House speaker as early as next week, a move that would throw the chamber into further disarray in the middle of a potential government shutdown,”

They think Emmer

At least they’re trying to line someone up before axing McC

From Minnesota Public Radio: Emmer brushes off talk of replacing Speaker McCarthy

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:03:30am

re: #303 lawhawk

Pretty much every significant road in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island is seeing flooding, and subways there are disrupted. Some of the Metro North lines are also seeing suspensions.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:05:31am

re: #311 lawhawk

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:05:44am

re: #311 lawhawk

Be careful Lawhawk. If you have to leave do so. Keep an eye on the sky and the weather maps.

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:08:17am

re: #311 lawhawk

Pretty much every significant road in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island is seeing flooding, and subways there are disrupted. Some of the Metro North lines are also seeing suspensions.

I hope my kids in Crown Heights are OK. I see there was some heavy flooding in Park Slope.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:09:11am

re: #307 gocart mozart

They will promote anyone who could potentially draw votes from Biden: RFK Jr, Cornell West, Kanye West, Kirsten Sinema, they don’t care who, just that they diminish Democratic turnout.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:09:33am

re: #297 steve_davis

is that the one where he built the clock using some sort of tropical wood because he realized due to the oils in it, it would effectively be self-lubricating as a gear?

Harrison invented the escape mechanism which enabled the chronometer & did what the clockmaker experts were unable to do.

Being the first navy to be secretly able to determine longitude greatly boosted Britain as the world’s first great sea power, and why world time is based on GMT.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:09:39am

Is there no moderate weather anymore?

Seems to be an endless cycle of floods in some states and droughts in others.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:10:41am

re: #313 PhillyPretzel ✅

I’m in Northern NJ, so it’s not nearly as dire. We’ll be keeping it local; my brother and other friends/family may be affected by this though.

It’s a problem since we just had 3-4 inches in the same areas last weekend, so the ground is still pretty saturated.

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sagehen  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:15:45am

re: #306 lawhawk

Because he isn’t likely to win that either, despite the more lax defamation laws and rules in the UK.

It’ll be a reminder that he is, in fact, more likely than not a Putin potted plant based on the substantial evidence known thus far.

yeah, but it gets him across the ocean to appear at the trial, more than halfway to Russia already should he be planning to flee.

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:20:54am

re: #314 Vicious Babushka

I hope my kids in Crown Heights are OK. I see there was some heavy flooding in Park Slope.

My oldest just moved to Brooklyn in June.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:21:38am

re: #304 Joe Bacon ✅

What took him so long?

thedailybeast.com

Donald Trump has sued a former British MI6 officer who penned the infamous—and still unverified—“golden showers” dossier which claimed that the businessman and eventual president had been “compromised” by Russia (as well as several more salacious accusations). According to U.K. High Court records obtained by The Independent, Trump filed a data protection complaint against Christopher Steele, the founder of Orbis Business Intelligence and the author of the Steele Dossier, a compilation of raw intelligence reports leaked to BuzzFeed in 2017 asserting that Vladimir Putin had attempted to “cultivate” Trump as a presidential frontrunner for “at least five years” and that many Trump campaign officials had secret contacts with Russian agents. The United Kingdom’s Press Association stated that the legal process is set to start in the High Court on Oct. 16.

Trump’s attorneys are still looking for a monkey wrench to disrupt any legal proceedings.

Dunno if the difference in US & UK libel laws apply in this regard.

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:24:23am

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:27:07am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:28:15am

re: #322 wrenchwench

My absolute fave is from the old New York Times, in an article about billionaire shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis looking for an apartment to buy in New York CIty, including one formerly owned by actor Buster Keaton.

The photo caption read: “Aristotle contemplating a home of Buster”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:29:19am

re: #302 Vicious Babushka

OMG
mastodon.social

But climate change is always happening.

This is the going to be the new norm

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:30:30am

re: #310 dat_said

From Minnesota Public Radio: Emmer brushes off talk of replacing Speaker McCarthy

to reiterate, anyone who takes that job (and has the votes) will not take it with the limitations McC did.

so that means the FC loses power; power it currently holds over kevin.

the FC has lost; they’re zugzwanged.

- oust kevin and lose power
- dont oust kevin and it’s clear they dont have the power over him anymore

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:32:32am

Birbie. Wordle 832 3/6*

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:33:06am

re: #283 Dangerman

A great book

The book’s full title is “Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time”. The author is Dava Sobel. It is, indeed, a fascinating read.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:33:09am

So I have passed 245K

Thank you folks for all the updings.

Now tie to rest, take a breather and then pitch base camp for the final ascent to the summit of 250K: my personal lifetime achievement goal.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:34:08am

re: #328 sizzzzlerz

The book’s full title is “Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time”. The author is Dava Sobel. It is, indeed, a fascinating read.

that’s the one

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John Vreeland  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:35:28am

Tucker Carlson has interviewed Bill O’Reilly. I’m not going to watch it but the idea is hilarious. Probably eminently quotable.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:35:28am

alre: #329 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So I have passed 245K

Thank you folks for all the updings.

Now tie to rest, take a breather and then pitch base camp for the final ascent to the summit of 250K: my personal lifetime achievement goal.

you keep talking about retirement.

there is no retire. there is only LGF

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:36:23am

re: #331 John Vreeland

Tucker Carlson has interviewed Bill O’Reilly. I’m not going to watch it but the idea is hilarious. Probably eminently quotable.

guy who was fired interviews other guy who was fired

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:36:54am

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:42:56am

re: #323 Dave In Austin

“Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Garth Crooks!”

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:46:06am

re: #335 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

“Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Garth Crooks!”

I hate you. Have an upding.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:51:31am

re: #335 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

“Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Garth Crooks!”

Let me guess! He stuck a sock in his jock as well! 😈

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:54:21am

re: #335 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

“Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Garth Crooks!”

No one cares enough about Musk to tell him to shave off his teenage facial hair, or to stop him from wearing costumes.

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Captain Ron  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:55:21am

re: #335 Eclectic Cyborg

He’s ready for a night out line dancing at the gay cowboy bar.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:56:14am

re: #335 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

“Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Garth Crooks!”

“Barf Crooks”……

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EstebanTornado1963  Sep 29, 2023 • 8:57:02am
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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:00:57am

Now here’s a Halloween idea that everyone likes.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:03:00am

re: #342 Dave In Austin

In my neighborhood it would have been stolen and smashed. The pieces would be spread all over the block.

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:03:05am

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:03:42am

re: #343 PhillyPretzel ✅

In my neighborhood it would have been stolen and smashed. The pieces would be spread all over the block.

You have tough squirrels.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:03:50am

re: #344 wrenchwench

Nice fall colors.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:04:05am

re: #321 BeenHereAwhile

Trump’s attorneys are still looking for a monkey wrench to disrupt any legal proceedings.

Dunno if the difference in US & UK libel laws apply in this regard.

Another Oscar Wilde case? Nah, we couldn’t be that lucky.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:04:22am

re: #333 Dangerman

guy who was fired interviews other guy who was fired

Ya gotta admit, both guys getting fired by Fox took some doing.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:05:08am

re: #345 wrenchwench

Nah. Just a bunch of smart-ass kids.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:05:59am

re: #349 PhillyPretzel ✅

Nah. Just a bunch of smart-ass kids.

Dumbass kids smash things.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:06:53am

re: #351 Vicious Babushka

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:07:19am

re: #332 Dangerman

al

you keep talking about retirement.

there is no retire. there is only LGF

I will be posting less and lurking more.

As for retirement, I will also be Feinsteining it until I physically/mentally can no longer work.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:07:29am

re: #350 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Okay. I agree. They are dumbass kids.

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darthstar  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:08:13am

Looks like it’s all about Feinstein on the news - will be listening to the Grateful Dead 9am concert on my commute today.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:08:23am

re: #352 lawhawk

…Kings County…
Brooklyn 5.97 in 0925 AM 09/29 CWOP
South Slope 5.76 in 0930 AM 09/29 CWOP
Prospect Park 5.31 in 0925 AM 09/29 AWS
Brooklyn College 4.67 in 0930 AM 09/29 NYSM
Sheepshead Bay 4.55 in 0915 AM 09/29 CWOP
Dyker Heights 4.03 in 0930 AM 09/29 CWOP

All those figures are essentially the overnight tally, and don’t include anything that has fallen this morning.

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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:08:31am

re: #349 PhillyPretzel ✅

Nah. Just a bunch of smart-ass kids.

I thought of you yesterday when I called dispatch about a truck’s lousy parking job. They sent out a woman right away, who wrote information, took pictures, stood on her tippy toes to tuck a bit of paper under a wiper, and ended up speaking with the driver.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:09:40am

re: #357 wrenchwench

lol.

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:11:13am

My son sent me this pic in Brooklyn, at Palmetto and Wilson. He said some workers came out and did something to the drains and it’s cleared up:

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:19:18am

re: #359 Belafon

For the curious, livestream from WABC 7 New York City can be seen here: abc7ny.com

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BigPapa  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:19:51am

This is sorta cool. Rest in Power.
Footage Shows Feinstein Waving and Voting Unassisted Hours Before Her Death

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:21:30am

Regretful pro-Trump columnist explains ‘irrational knee-jerk desire’ to defend him

Right-wing columnist Scott Morefield, who has a long history of columns at townhall.com praising and defending former President Donald Trump, now believes that Republicans need to “jettison” him to have any hope of winning in 2024.

In a lengthy Twitter post, Morefield expressed empathy for many of the MAGA faithful who are continuing to stick with their leader despite the fact that he was impeached twice and has now been indicted in four different jurisdictions on 91 felony counts.

He then explained how he and other conservatives rationalized Trump’s actions despite knowing how damaging they were.

“We tended to excuse his obnoxious personality and even actions we didn’t like because we knew the good outweighed the bad, especially when he was doing things we liked as president,” he writes.

“Over the years that becomes ingrained, and what was once a pragmatic alliance for many became a cult of personality. They became ‘only Trumpers,’ even when the bad started outweighing the good and he became a liability.”

All of this has led to “an irrational knee-jerk desire” to defend Trump at any costs and ignore evidence that he has become an election liability for the GOP, Morefield claims.

“At this point, Trump’s legacy is being demolished by his own stubborn actions and irrational desire for power and revenge,” he writes. “His diehard remaining supporters need permission to jettison Trump, not just for the country’s good, but for his own.”

He concludes his column by urging Trump supporters to back an alternative nominee who will pledge to pardon Trump.

In other words this is a “an irrational knee-jerk desire” from an irrational jerk.

rawstory.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:24:27am

re: #362 Joe Bacon ✅

He concludes his column by urging Trump supporters to back an alternative nominee who will pledge to pardon Trump.

that would work for Federal crimes but not for state ones

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BigPapa  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:25:12am

re: #362 Joe Bacon ✅

As somebody who changed ideological/political orientation ego is a huge driving factor as it’s our core emotional engine. When it comes down to it you have to put your ego aside and assess the facts and realities. When I did that I ceased to become a glibertarian.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:25:22am

re: #362 Joe Bacon ✅

So, the party of personal responsibility continues to deny any is required of those committing felonies across multiple jurisdictions.

Got it.

FTS.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:32:57am

re: #343 PhillyPretzel ✅

In my neighborhood it would have been stolen and smashed. The pieces would be spread all over the block.

damn squirrel gangs

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:33:10am

re: #345 wrenchwench

You have tough squirrels.

damn!

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:34:51am

re: #243 Nerdy Fish

So it seems that prosecuting and convicting Trump is the popular opinion, even among Republicans. It’s a start.

Only in Georgia where Kemp has established himself as the “anti” Trump GOP governor. Other GOP-led states would have taken a different position.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:36:38am

re: #362 Joe Bacon ✅

…
He concludes his column by urging Trump supporters to back an alternative nominee who will pledge to pardon Trump.

In other words this is a “an irrational knee-jerk desire” from an irrational jerk.

rawstory.com

“i agree he did it, but we shouldnt prosecute or convict him”

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gocart mozart  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:37:15am
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BigPapa  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:37:37am

re: #369 Dangerman

“i agree he did it, but we shouldnt prosecute or convict him”

No True But The Deep State

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steve_davis  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:38:58am

re: #345 wrenchwench

You have tough squirrels.

well, they’re philly squirrels. they throw batteries at the cats.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:40:10am

My Brother who is 9 yrs senior and nephew out in the bliss of Central Colorado this week. I’ve never been able to do the flyrod thing much.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:40:23am

re: #372 steve_davis

Maybe the ones in Center City do but in NE Philly the cats kill birds and squirrels.

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jaunte  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:40:42am

re: #351 Vicious Babushka

The Houston Effect.

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BigPapa  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:43:32am

re: #373 Dave In Austin

River trout are tasty AF.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:44:53am

re: #285 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

Guess we’ll be testing that theory within the next few weeks.

McConnell will exploit every opportunity to give the GOP caucus an advantage, no matter the circumstances or facts.

There were a fair number of respondents in that thread that challenged Stern’s assertion and some even accused him of acting in bad faith, which is what the GOP does on a daily basis.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:46:51am

The Fuck the Poor party asserts its intentions once again:

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:47:04am

re: #375 jaunte

The Houston Effect.

it’s New York

that’s The “How-ston” Effect ;-)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:48:45am

re: #379 Dangerman

it’s New York

that’s The “How-ston” Effect ;-)

and the Tucson (pronounced “Tuck-son” Effect

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:48:58am
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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:49:58am

re: #376 BigPapa

River trout are tasty AF.

All released. A good week though, might be the last time those 2 get hard time like this.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:50:32am
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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:50:40am

re: #301 Nerdy Fish

Surprised they didn’t take a page from the NE legislature (which Anymouse reported on at length when it happened) when they did the combined abortion and transgender ban: “It’s all healthcare, right?”

Because this was a budget bill — maybe the title cannot be as simple as “providing funding to all government agencies”.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:51:24am

Follow up:

Arrest Made in Theft of Statue of Buddha Valued at $1.5 Million

Justin Livick has been arrested on suspicion of possession of stolen property, the Los Angeles Police Department says, according to KTLA, CBS and City News Service. The 44-year-old was cited and released from custody early Sunday morning after the statue was recovered from a truck found at an undisclosed location on Saturday.

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BigPapa  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:51:58am

One of the best restaurant meals I’ve ever had was a copper pan-roasted trout laid over fingerlings. The roasted skin side up so it was a little crispy then pulled all the bones out. Absolute perfection. The only problem was my Wife Unit ordered it so I only got a few forks full. I usually win the ‘Who Ordered Better’ game because I’m more adventurous. But that was her day.

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:53:19am

re: #378 lawhawk

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:53:40am

re: #381 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

i dont recall reading this at the time

Read General Mark Milley’s Scathing, Never-Sent Resignation Letter to Trump

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BigPapa  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:55:28am

The GQP is attempting a coup by ‘the power of the purse’ which is a stupid and annoying thing that Mark Levin likes to say. They actually think if they defund the government the prosecutions stop. Democrats need to go full boot on the throat this election cycle. No quarter.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:56:43am

re: #387 Belafon

[Embedded content]
And yet they claim to be the party of Jesus.

a voice told me fishes and loaves was a metaphor for take care of your own damn selves. //

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:57:46am

re: #387 Belafon

And yet they claim to be the party of Jesus.

the party of Free Market Jesus

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:58:58am

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 29, 2023 • 9:59:12am

Well I have just heard from my kids in Brooklyn who assure me that the streets are wet but not flooded. Crown Heights is the highest point in Brooklyn. I guess you could figure that out by the “Heights” part.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:00:38am

re: #392 Backwoods Sleuth

Smart move.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:00:52am

re: #386 BigPapa

Same - had a trout dinner at a restaurant just outside Capitol Reef National Park. The place was almost at closing and no other restaurants are nearby - because that’s where Capitol Reef is. We made it worth their time, ordering a bottle of wine and the food was fantastic. Staff was great too. Got to watch sun set over the park too.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:02:44am

W.G.A & conditional use of A.I.

. . . The W.G.A. contract establishes a precedent that an employer’s use of A.I. can be a central subject of bargaining. It further establishes the precedent that workers can and should have a say in when and how they use artificial intelligence at work.
It may come as a surprise to some that the W.G.A. apparently never wanted, nor sought, an outright ban on the use of tools like ChatGPT. Instead, it aimed for a more important assurance: that if A.I. raises writers’ productivity or the quality of their output, guild members should snare an equitable share of the performance gains. And the W.G.A. got it.

How did it achieve this? In this case, the parties agreed that A.I. is not a writer. The studios cannot use A.I. in place of a credited and paid guild member. Studios can rely on A.I. to generate a first draft, but the writers to whom they deliver it get the credit. These writers receive the same minimum pay they would have had they written the piece from scratch. Likewise, writers can elect to use A.I. on their own, when a studio allows it. However, no studio can require a guild member to use A.I.

These negotiations were likely aided by the fact that studios have their own concerns about A.I. Material generated by A.I. cannot be copyrighted, which presents several challenges to studios, since they typically own the copyright on material from writers they’ve hired. By assuring that human writers will be involved in any writing that also involves A.I., the studios start to insulate themselves from those copyright concerns.

nytimes.com

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:04:26am

Gaetz is threatening to force a vote on booting McCarthy if McC works with Democrats to avoid a shutdown.

so Gaetz approached multiple Ds on the floor late Thursday night to discuss how they would vote on a possible vote of no confidence against McCarthy.

i hope they all lied to him

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:05:00am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:05:49am

re: #395 lawhawk

Same - had a trout dinner at a restaurant just outside Capitol Reef National Park. The place was almost at closing and no other restaurants are nearby - because that’s where Capitol Reef is. We made it worth their time, ordering a bottle of wine and the food was fantastic. Staff was great too. Got to watch sun set over the park too.

That’s one of the few sites in the SW our family did not visit on our summer vacations, otherwise we did Grand Canyon, Zion & Bryce Canyons, Arches/Canyonlands, Yellowstone, etc…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:06:37am

re: #398 lawhawk

b3ExcEFCaGNQZUsxeFNIS0NpMHFudTJBbytzbERtd3FURzlWL1l1cFN3cz06Os9UQRT/j0gecW4PedEGizU=

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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:06:40am

October and November are Redfish times on the Texas Coastal Bend.

I generally keep 1 or 2 a year for the “Blackening”.
(Oh man…!!)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:06:40am

re: #397 Dangerman

Gaetz is threatening to force a vote on booting McCarthy if McC works with Democrats to avoid a shutdown.

so Gaetz approached multiple Ds on the floor late Thursday night to discuss how they would vote on a possible vote of no confidence against McCarthy.

i hope they all lied to him

Who would have any reason to expect honesty from him?

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:06:45am

re: #396 BeenHereAwhile

W.G.A & conditional use of A.I.

. . . The W.G.A. contract establishes a precedent that an employer’s use of A.I. can be a central subject of bargaining. It further establishes the precedent that workers can and should have a say in when and how they use artificial intelligence at work.
It may come as a surprise to some that the W.G.A. apparently never wanted, nor sought, an outright ban on the use of tools like ChatGPT. Instead, it aimed for a more important assurance: that if A.I. raises writers’ productivity or the quality of their output, guild members should snare an equitable share of the performance gains. And the W.G.A. got it.

How did it achieve this? In this case, the parties agreed that A.I. is not a writer. The studios cannot use A.I. in place of a credited and paid guild member. Studios can rely on A.I. to generate a first draft, but the writers to whom they deliver it get the credit. These writers receive the same minimum pay they would have had they written the piece from scratch. Likewise, writers can elect to use A.I. on their own, when a studio allows it. However, no studio can require a guild member to use A.I.

These negotiations were likely aided by the fact that studios have their own concerns about A.I. Material generated by A.I. cannot be copyrighted, which presents several challenges to studios, since they typically own the copyright on material from writers they’ve hired. By assuring that human writers will be involved in any writing that also involves A.I., the studios start to insulate themselves from those copyright concerns.

nytimes.com

That actually sounds like a reasonable response to new technologies from both sides.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:07:10am

re: #383 lawhawk

Holy shit, they arrested Duane Davis (aka Keefe D). And not only has Duane been openly talking about this for a long, long time, but that

Click to Reveal

Sean “Diddy” Combs put out a $1 million contract on Tupac and Suge Knight.

Detective Tim Brennan from the Compton PD filed an affidavit naming Davis and his nephew Orlando Anderson as suspects: Anderson died in a gang shootout in 1998.

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Belafon  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:07:28am

re: #397 Dangerman

Gaetz is threatening to force a vote on booting McCarthy if McC works with Democrats to avoid a shutdown.

so Gaetz approached multiple Ds on the floor late Thursday night to discuss how they would vote on a possible vote of no confidence against McCarthy.

i hope they all lied to him

I hope they all laughed.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:07:41am

re: #385 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

That’s good news.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:09:25am

re: #398 lawhawk

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:11:55am

heh

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:12:53am
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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:12:56am

re: #398 lawhawk

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:14:07am

re: #402 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Who would have any reason to expect honesty from him?

i’m hoping he’s gullible

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:15:03am

re: #410 Dangerman

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:15:33am

lolololol

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:16:00am

re: #393 Vicious Babushka

Well I have just heard from my kids in Brooklyn who assure me that the streets are wet but not flooded. Crown Heights is the highest point in Brooklyn. I guess you could figure that out by the “Heights” part.

After living in Miami where a 1 - 2 ft storm surge in my front yard occurred a couple of times a year; a major concern of mine in purchasing residential properties in Nashville was flash floods and elevation above the FEMA flood plain.

As Ben the 80 year old yardman in Macon GA use to say:
“that water sits there, and then it’s got to go.”

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(((Archangel1)))  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:16:33am
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wrenchwench  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:16:49am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:16:50am

So Musk is coming out in favor of the AfD?

What a fucktoad.

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Teukka  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:21:09am

re: #413 Backwoods Sleuth

lolololol

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Is this what is referred to as a pro-grade clap-back?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:21:46am
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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:21:58am

You alway knew it would happen.
The Constitutional right of free passage has now been blocked in Texas.

The

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dat_said  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:26:03am

re: #420 Dave In Austin

You alway knew it would happen.
The Constitutional right of free passage has now been blocked in Texas.

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Did they also include no non-whites on the road after sundown?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:26:44am

re: #420 Dave In Austin

You alway knew it would happen.
The Constitutional right of free passage has now been blocked in Texas.

Gilead has been established on US soil

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:27:11am

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:28:51am

The GOP’s Accidental Case for Joe Biden

“with every truth that escapes their lips, they undermine the case against him.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:29:57am

re: #423 Backwoods Sleuth

I think that Kevin is telegraphing that wants to see a dramatic 24 to 48-hour government shutdown to make a point to his party’s extremists before coing to a deal.

But these things have a way of going haywire and dragging out a lot longer.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:30:28am

re: #420 Dave In Austin

You alway knew it would happen.
The Constitutional right of free passage has now been blocked in Texas.

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And they are going to enforce this… how? Are they literally going to have county deputies pulling over every female in a car traveling westbound towards the state line, armed with pregnancy tests?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:31:34am

re: #426 Nerdy Fish

And they are going to enforce this… how? Are they literally going to have county deputies pulling over every female in a car traveling westbound towards the state line, armed with pregnancy tests?

They will be looking for women of childbearing age. So women should be prepared to dress in drag.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:31:37am

re: #424 Dangerman

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:31:37am

re: #409 Backwoods Sleuth

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Pretending to be so stupid as to believe that a god wrote the 2nd is irritating.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:32:31am

re: #403 Belafon

That actually sounds like a reasonable response to new technologies from both sides.

The federal court’s ruling that A.I. generated material could not be copyrighted helped the AGA in their negotiations.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:32:48am

re: #264 sagehen

He’s there.

NYC sharks are too smart to stick their fin up and be seen. But just under the surface…

Since that’s near LGA they might be lying low and watching due to the jets.

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lawhawk  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:33:46am

re: #431 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Since that’s near LGA they might be lying low and watching due to the jets.

That’s a West Side Story thing. All the updings for the sly reference.

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Dangerman  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:34:00am
Honda said on April 26 that it plans to retool three of its manufacturing plants in Marysville, East Liberty and Anna, Ohio, for EV production and in 2025 will deliver its first mid- to large-size electric vehicles in North America, based on its original dedicated EV platform.

but, but, but didn’t TFG just say….

Link

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Dave In Austin  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:34:39am

re: #426 Nerdy Fish

And they are going to enforce this… how? Are they literally going to have county deputies pulling over every female in a car traveling westbound towards the state line, armed with pregnancy tests?

They will probably have to hire a female deputy….. So Yes.

Make no mistake about the West Texas Panhandle and the people there. Shiplord can attest to that.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:35:03am

re: #398 lawhawk

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HRH Stanley Sea  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:35:26am

re: #373 Dave In Austin

That is a great catch shot.

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(((Archangel1)))  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:36:35am
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:36:41am

re: #430 BeenHereAwhile

The federal court’s ruling that A.I. generated material could not be copyrighted helped the AGA in their negotiations.

I expect that management has eliminating those workers on their mind, but I don’t think ML can deliver on that.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 29, 2023 • 10:43:50am

re: #426 Nerdy Fish

And they are going to enforce this… how? Are they literally going to have county deputies pulling over every female in a car traveling westbound towards the state line, armed with pregnancy tests?

No. At the moment, it’s a symbolic gesture. The border patrols and pregnancy tests will come later.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Sep 29, 2023 • 12:47:17pm

re: #427 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They will be looking for women of childbearing age. So women should be prepared to dress in drag.

Seems like it would be fun if women just started taking drives through there and letting them know they are there to waste their resources.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 29, 2023 • 1:24:12pm

re: #387 Belafon

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Yes, in the sense of “Jesus will take care of it.”

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 29, 2023 • 2:17:31pm

re: #420 Dave In Austin

You alway knew it would happen.
The Constitutional right of free passage has now been blocked in Texas.

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I hope they are not getting federal transportation aid from the government. If they are, I hope it stops.


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