The Fearless Flyers: “Bank Account” (Ft. Louis Cole)
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re: #139 Belafon
The Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocked a Dallas-area woman’s abortion late Friday night after a judge permitted the procedure in an emergency hearing only a day earlier.
Attorney General Ken Paxton petitioned the state’s highest court to stay the lower court’s ruling in one of the first lawsuits brought by a pregnant person seeking an abortion since the state banned the procedure in nearly all cases after the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
The Supreme Court said it will weigh in on the case when the justices have more time to consider it, according to the court filing.
In other words the “temporary” part is total horseshit, they can slow-walk this disaster until she’s dead or rendered infertile, then shrug their shoulders and mumble something about the “the wheels of justice” while Paxton smugly tells the aghast public that he was just “enforcing the law.”
re: #1 Targetpractice
In other words the “temporary” part is total horseshit, they can slow-walk this disaster until she’s dead or rendered infertile, then shrug their shoulders and mumble something about the “the wheels of justice” while Paxton smugly tells the aghast public that he was just “enforcing the law.”
It’s absolutely fucking monstrous.
re: #1 Targetpractice
Will this finally wake people up to what radical Xtians will force on us?
re: #2 Charles Johnson
It’s absolutely fucking monstrous.
The only thing making it more sickening is the knowledge that as far as conservatives are concerned, the fact that it got this far is the controversy. That the courts didn’t put the kibosh on this from the very beginning by telling her that it “in God’s hands” is what they’ll have issue with.
If folks in red states want to know why the number of doctors in their state are dropping, here be Exhibit A.
re: #5 Targetpractice
And what is absolutely sickening is knowing that there are six assholes on the corrupted court who see nothing wrong with her suffering.
re: #6 Joe Bacon ✅
And what is absolutely sickening is knowing that there are six assholes on the corrupted court who see nothing wrong with her suffering.
Nothing beyond the crocodile tears for the victimized woman and the “poor widdle baby” whose suffering the lower courts enforced simply to pretty other “Jezebels” from using a “loophole” to get out of their own pregnancies.
re: #7 Targetpractice
To those six heartless assholes it’s all about the fetus and f the suffering mother.
re: #4 Joe Bacon ✅
Will this finally wake people up to what radical Xtians will force on us?
Some people. If we can hold on to our democracy the Republican’s extremism will continue to lose them elections, even in Texas.
re: #8 Joe Bacon ✅
To those six heartless assholes it’s all about the fetus and f the suffering mother.
It’s never been about the fetus, that’s all claptrap spun up by the evangelicals to inspire sympathy for their cause. Just like all the BS they told us for years about how they viewed pregnant women who sought abortions as “victims” who they’d never got after.
If they gave a flying fuck about either, then we would not witness so many arguments against exceptions to abortion bans. The reality is they want to drag modern society, kick and scream, back to what their addled minds think society was 100 years ago. That’s the Evangelical Right for you, people forever chasing a past that never was.
re: #8 Joe Bacon ✅
On any issue, what’s important to them is that THEY get to decide.
re: #8 Joe Bacon ✅
To those six heartless assholes it’s all about
the fetus and f the suffering mother.power
It’s about power, the alpha and omega of this is power, it has absolutely fuck all to do with the fetus or the mother.
re: #11 jaunte
On any issue, what’s important to them is that THEY get to decide.
Yes and now you see the Radical Xtians next push to outlaw prenatal testing.
These are sick freaks.
🚨BREAKING🚨@CapitolPolice pups in training pic.twitter.com/aONtnhPz44
— Chris Dalton (@ChrisBDalton) December 7, 2023
Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈 @wlknsn.xyz
The perverse pointless cruelty of forcing a woman to risk her life giving birth to a guaranteed DOA baby is breathtaking. And there’s ZERO political upside! WHO is this for? A handful of power-mad sadists? Just mind-boggling wickedness.
re: #15 jaunte
Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈 @wlknsn.xyz
I have to disagree, if there were no political upside then such laws would not have a snowball’s chance in Hell of ever passing simply because Repubs wouldn’t see the point. So yes, there is a political upside, if only to the sort of soulless monsters who think Ken Paxton some paragon of “LAW & ORDER!!!”.
re: #16 Targetpractice
At least 30% of the country are, or enjoy, power-mad sadists.
re: #17 jaunte
At least 30% of the country are, or enjoy, power-mad sadists.
Recent elections have shown us that at least 45% of those fellow Americans who can bother to get out to vote either support such monsters or are willing to support them if they believe there’s something in it for them as part of the deal.
House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) told CNN he believes Hunter Biden was indicted on nine criminal counts yesterday to be protected from testifying before his committee.
re: #19 Belafon
snork! who was it that just turned down H Biden’s offer to testify in public before his committee?
So it looks like a repo guy showed up, verified the vehicle he was seeking, hitched up and hauled it out of its parking spot, pulled the truck around to hitch up to the other end, and then hauled ass out of our parking lot in less than five minutes. I barely had time to register what was going on and start to walk out there before he was gone.
re: #16 Targetpractice
I have to disagree, if there were no political upside then such laws would not have a snowball’s chance in Hell of ever passing simply because Repubs wouldn’t see the point. So yes, there is a political upside, if only to the sort of soulless monsters who think Ken Paxton some paragon of “LAW & ORDER!!!”.
There’s a logic in that for goopers trying to avoid primaries to their right. However, with the full electorate they’ve been punching themselves in the genitals for over a year now with no sign of changing anything. Whenever anything to do with abortion is on the ballot, goopers significantly underperform historic expectations without fail.
They’re control freaks and misogynists, and they cannot help themselves. The way control freaks justify their behavior to themselves, is to tell themselves that if they stop controlling others for a second disaster will happen. And if they give their adversaries freedom for one second they will tear the control freaks’ throats out. The only solution is constant unrelenting domination or they are undone.
“I’m going to be honest, I can’t find the legs, I can always find the legs.”
Imagine hearing those words at your first ultrasound.
Dr. Sonali Paul was ecstatic to finally be pregnant after seven years of unexplained infertility.
Each scan found something more devastating than…— LanaQuest aka RosaSparks (@LqLana) December 8, 2023
Arbitrary cut off dates for legal abortions primarily punish women who wanted their pregnancy but get devastatingly bad news.
Enjoying the birbie run while it lasts.
In local news, my high school won its first state football championship since 1996 - getting the go-ahead score with just 36 seconds left. And today, Lenoir-Rhyne University - my alma mater - will take on Harding University in the Division II semifinals in Searcy, Ark. No private school has ever won the DII title, though either one will have a chance next week - more than likely against the Colorado School of Mines Orediggers.
Got my driver’s license renewed. The wait was less than 30 minutes, so got lucky there. Gonna check out Godzilla Minus One today with my lawyer buddy and fellow film nerd. Feels good to be able to get back out and about. All the best to everyone!
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So I need to buy some laundry detergent, my current box getting low.
For years I have used unscented soaps, as I can’t stand the scents added (of any kind, especially perfumes.) “Fresh scent” being among the most obnoxious.
Anyway, for years I have used Tide Free and Gentle.
So I go to buy a box and behold, P&G discontinued it earlier this year.
The excuse I found online via Reddit:
Please know decisions to discontinue products or introduce new ones are thought out very carefully. Consumer purchasing patterns and ongoing consumer research are taken into consideration when making such important decisions. We always want to bring you the latest innovations, and sometimes this means we have to say goodbye to older or favorite products, especially if demand isn’t high enough to keep making them.
Michelle: While we don’t have an exact replacement, we do still manufacture our liquid and PODS form of our Tide Free and Gentle line.
The reality is this: the powder form is too efficient. I can make a 95oz box last an entire year.
So P&G can sell roughly twice as many PODs or liquid containers equivalent to a single box of powder.
And getting back to our carbon budget: twice as many things shipped, and heavier (the water in the liquid form) means more energy consumed per load of laundry detergent.
I looked on Amazon a couple of months ago for a box of said Tide and it was a bit expensive, but I should have bought it then, because now the powder boxes are being treated as collector’s items, with an asking price of $46/box ! And even with Prime, not arriving until Christmas week.
Oh, and of course the smaller box (which P&G hadn’t made for some time) is even more expensive:
Fortunately the Henkel Corp. still makes powder form of All fragrance-free detergent. But even then, Amazon only has the liquid form in stock (thankfully Walmart will come to my rescue here.)
Point being: “pods” are a pricing scam, but too many consumers are just too lazy to measure out detergent so they’ll pay multiples of what a box of powder cost.
And returning to the issue of climate change: this is why I am confident we will not avert from the worst case scenario for climate change - because people will want convenience over efficiency every damn time.
re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
My brother a year or two ago gave people small boxes of laundry strips as stocking stuffers. The detergent is formed into a dissolvable sheet which you put into the washer first and then put the clothes in.
With the current apartment there is not a good place where the washer and dryer are to store detergent, etc. Once I worked through my existing supply of liquid laundry detergent* I tried them out and they worked rather well. I eventually ordered more of them and found that the company, TruEarth, also had a unscented variant which is what I opted for.
Not exactly cheap, but it was also less plastic being fed into my recycling bin. The contents of which I suspect might still be ending up in a landfill somewhere.
* - I gave to someone else one jug of Tide detergent I’d bought. Anything I washed with it simply reeked of whatever perfume they’d added. Made a few of my sweatshirts unwearable until I’d washed them again with an unscented detergent.
re: #24 No Malarkey!
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re: #28 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
My brother a year or two ago gave people small boxes of laundry strips as stocking stuffers. The detergent is formed into a dissolvable sheet which you put into the washer first and then put the clothes in.
With the current apartment there is not a good place where the washer and dryer are to store detergent, etc. Once I worked through my existing supply of liquid laundry detergent* I tried them out and they worked rather well. I eventually ordered more of them and found that the company, TruEarth, also had a unscented variant which is what I opted for.
Not exactly cheap, but it was also less plastic being fed into my recycling bin. The contents of which I suspect might still be ending up in a landfill somewhere.
* - I gave to someone else one jug of Tide detergent I’d bought. Anything I washed with it simply reeked of whatever perfume they’d added. Made a few of my sweatshirts unwearable until I’d washed them again with an unscented detergent.
We’ve been making our own powder for years
Into the cuisinart:
I bar ivory, cut up with a knife into chunks
3 c borax
1 ¼ c washing soda
Pulse it smooth
1 scoop for a normal load
Ridiculously cheap
And cardboard boxes. no plastic waste
Liquid dish soap and dishwasher powder are also ez
Woke up to a great pain in my arm.
Oh yeah. RSV yesterday
Top officials in Donald Trump’s campaign sought Friday to quell discussions about his possible second term in the White House, amid alarms about authoritarianism and reports about personnel,” the Washington Post reports
I’m running for president but we won’t talk about what I’ll do as president
Some local news, and the hotels/no-tells have already sold out. This is in June 2024, a month early.
SARATOGA, N.Y. — The Belmont is heading to Saratoga for the first time — but almost certainly not the last.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that the 2024 Belmont Stakes will be run at Saratoga Race Course, with the third leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown shifting upstate from Long Island because of the massive renovation of Belmont Park.
The move has been expected for some time since the New York Racing Association unveiled plans for the $455 million Belmont Park project. Construction is expected to last into 2025, so there’s a good chance of the Belmont at Saratoga two years in a row.
“This is likely a two-year endeavor,” NYRA president and CEO David O’Rourke said by phone Wednesday. “We’re going to get it right, and we’re going to improve on it each year.”
Pending the approval of the North American Graded Stakes Committee, the Belmont will be run at a distance of 1 1/4 miles, shorter than the race’s traditional 1 1/2 miles because of the shape of the dirt track at Saratoga. It was 1 1/8 miles in 2020 when the Belmont led off the Triple Crown run out of order because of the pandemic.
Keep up the fight! Watch the video!
Dramatic footage released Friday showed Israel Defense Forces soldiers facing off against Hamas terrorists inside a school — as the country’s defense minister vowed that the group’s hold in the Gaza Strip is finally “beginning to break.”
Members of the elite LOTAR Unit, along with the 188th Armored Brigadee’s 74th Battalion, encountered a Hamas cell in the remains of a school building in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, the Times of Israel reported.
IDF fighters appeared to pursue the terrorists through the building in a tense, bullet-ridden standoff, the IDF clips showed.
“The terrorists tried to draw the forces into an ambush, with gunfire and explosives, and were eliminated by the troops of the LOTAR Unit and tank fire of the 74th Battalion,” the IDF said of the incident.
Lmao the white American trads are horrified of actual cool white traditions https://t.co/DwZhY1pTa7
— Nikolaj🍦🇺🇦 (@nikicaga) December 8, 2023
Some pro-Russian troll farm finds a new way to manufacture paid for agitprop against Zelensky:
An unknown pro-Russia influence group spent time recruiting unwitting Hollywood actors to assist in smear campaigns against Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Exploiting platforms like Cameo, which allows people to pay public figures for personalized videos, usually for events like birthdays, this influence operation compensated US celebrities to record videos for a “Vladimir,” supporting his fight against substance addiction.
The videos are then edited to include emojis, links, and overlays to make it seem like they came from the actor’s Instagram page, and shared on Russian social media networks to promote the country’s long-running claim that Ukraine’s leader suffers from addiction.
re: #40 Belafon
The future that liberals want: Satan Claus!!!
During interview w/ @marthamaccallum, Casey DeSantis called on an out-of-state coalition of mothers and grandmothers “to descend upon the state of Iowa to be a part of the caucus” and “let their voices be heard.”
“You do not have to be a resident of Iowa,” she said. pic.twitter.com/Z8FsKrFM0K— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) December 8, 2023
Was it the plan for Casey Desantis to reveal on national television the Florida GOP’s playbook of having out-of-state people vote in elections?
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 9, 2023
After Casey Desantis said today that they plan to flood Iowa with out-of-state voters for the caucus, the Iowa GOP issues a statement. pic.twitter.com/nQa8XtWTyg
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 9, 2023
re: #28 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
These are what we use.
re: #44 Belafon
So Ron’s wife is into voter fraud like other Republicans.
re: #47 darthstar
So Ron’s wife is into voter fraud like other Republicans.
Also, why is Ron even on set with her? Even when he’s on TV the chyron doesn’t mention him.
re: #44 Belafon
During interview w/ Martha Maccallum, Casey DeSantis called on an out-of-state coalition of mothers and grandmothers “to descend upon the state of Iowa to be a part of the caucus” and “let their voices be heard.”
“You do not have to be a resident of Iowa,” she said.
not unlike what pro-slavers did in Kansas in the 1850’s
re: #47 darthstar
Thing is, polls have shown that DeSantis is doing better in Iowa than elsewhere. Trump is still far ahead in opinion polls in that state, but DeSantis has been far ahead of the rest of the pack.
I suspect idiotic moves like that of Casey DeSantis will not sit well with the Iowa Republicans. Religious right they may be, but it’s unlikely they will like to be invaded by outside voters attempting to take over their caucus.
They target the richest homes in the neighborhood. They bring equipment that can jam security alarms. They wear all-black, face masks, and gloves.The high-end burglary problem in Oakland County has escalated to the point that a new task force has been created to stop the transnational gangs that have targeted the high-end mansions that dot the Southeast Michigan county.
Convened by the Oakland County Sheriffs Office earlier this week, the Southeast Michigan Collaborate Arrest and Prosecute (SEMCAP) team is made up of more than 30 agencies ranging from local police departments to the federal government.
“This group is very methodical,” said Sheriff Michael Bouchard. The robbers ‘have used things like trackers on cars, they’ve used trail cams to do pattern of life to determine when you’re coming and going.”
Bouchard believes the group that’s targeted homes in Oakland County are of Chilean-origin based on recent arrests of another gang in the county. The sheriff said four suspects tied to a separate jewelry theft ring were from Chile. Other apprehensions made in other states have also been tied to Oakland County robberies.
re: #55 Shropshire Slasher
They target the richest homes in the neighborhood. They bring equipment that can jam security alarms. They wear all-black, face masks, and gloves.
The high-end burglary problem in Oakland County has escalated to the point that a new task force has been created to stop the transnational gangs that have targeted the high-end mansions that dot the Southeast Michigan county.
I thought they were busy shoplifting Targets and Wal-Marts out of business…
re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I thought they were busy shoplifting Targets and Wal-Marts out of business…
That too!
Alito nailed by legal expert for sloppy work to get his way
In a column for MSNBC, Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito was called out by a legal scholar for his sloppy use of unvetted outside opinions to arrive at legal conclusions he’s seeking that, in turn, have a wide-ranging impact on American life.
Using a bombshell report from Politico that Supreme Court justices are increasingly relying on the so-called “friend of the court” briefs known as amicus briefs in place of legal scholarship, University of Texas Law School Professor Steve Vladek warned it is an affront to how the nation’s highest court is supposed to work.
With Politico reporting that conservative justices are being flooded with briefs from outside groups affiliated with well-financed conservative gadfly Leonard Leo, Vladek name-checked Alito as one of the justices who has been overusing the sketchy legal assertions found in the briefs in his legal rulings.
After first asserting, “… their arguments are showing up with growing regularity in the justices’ written opinions, notably in Justice Samuel Alito’s majority decision overturning Roe v. Wade,” Vladek wrote, “… the justices’ increasing reliance upon these briefs as authoritative sources for factual or legal contentions that haven’t been tested in the lower courts and are being advanced by groups or institutions with agendas of their own. Especially as the court has turned more sharply to the right in recent years, that reliance has likewise skewed toward claims advanced by parties with an obvious (and, as Politico suggests, coordinated) ideological bent, at the expense of not only the rules that are supposed to govern the legal process, but also the accuracy of the narratives the court’s opinions provide.”
Worse still, he added, the use of those briefs lacks guardrails that would expose who is financing them.
Writing, “the court’s disclosure rules for amicus rules are laughably weak. The brief need not disclose who funded a brief; it need disclose only that it wasn’t funded by one of the parties before the court,” he added, “if the court is going to chastise lower courts for relying too heavily on amici, it should also look in the mirror.”
Bah humbug. My free Saturday has just morphed into a tylenol and extra coffee needed because “We are shopping and need more boxes and ribbons and tape & I want to look at those recliners” day.
Fargo Forum: Prosecutor: Ian Cramer had drugs on him when he hit and killed deputy during pursuit
Schwartz said two hours prior to the hearing he was informed that drugs were found belonging to Cramer and more charges will be filed Monday. According to Schwartz, Cramer was in possession of three grams of meth, four grams of cocaine and “numerous baggies of paraphernalia.”
Schwartz called Cramer a “multi-state offender” with violent convictions across the United States. He noted that Cramer is currently wanted for assault in Houston.
Ian Cramer is the adult son of North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer (R). Senator Cramer issued a statement after the incident stating his son was having a “mental health” issue, which pretty much downplays what happened. Senator Cramer has consistently done nothing to address mental health issues or drug addiction.
re: #63 jeffreyw
lol. We are going to show that picture to your wife. (just kidding)
re: #61 dat_said
Senator Cramer has consistently done nothing to address mental health issues or drug addiction.
Because they are signs of demonic possession or moral failure
re: #62 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
But, bur Hunter Biden is much worse.
ETA - not going to fix the typo.
you mean change “bur” to “dur”?
Note that when it comes to denying people rights, right-wing courts act with alacrity, but when it comes to protecting rights, they feel they can take all the time in the world.
Another birbie. I’ll take it.
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Sen Tuberville is still our state’s shining star:
Tuberville: Democrats will take ‘law-abiding’ citizens guns but give them to ‘illegal immigrants’ in military
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Remember—Auburn paid this dolt $5,000,000 to quit.
Over at Reddit there’s a guy hoping for a software fix to the problem that he’s having using his Quest 2 headphones with the Quest 3. He initially revealed nothing about the headphones. You’re thinking they’re wireless, like everyone else did. When asked what the problem is, he replied that the cable is too short.
There are a lot of very stupid people on Reddit, but I’m still shocked. This is too dumb. It’s so dumb that I feel a little light-headed from the shock.
At this point, it’s no longer specifically about controlling women. It’s about right-wing men, insecure with their dwindling grip on power and their fading majority in the demographics, ensuring that their specific version of reality is enforced. The whole abortion canard is simply the strongest tool in their toolbox - because what kind of monster argues for murdering babies? That the alternative they propose - essentially amounting to the cold-blooded murder of any woman who has a pregnancy go wrong - is even more monstrous is beside the point; it’s all about them and their need to feel in control.
re: #16 Targetpractice
I have to disagree, if there were no political upside then such laws would not have a snowball’s chance in Hell of ever passing simply because Repubs wouldn’t see the point. So yes, there is a political upside, if only to the sort of soulless monsters who think Ken Paxton some paragon of “LAW & ORDER!!!”.
Never forget that white evangelicals didn’t care about abortion when it was legalized; it was segregation that motivated many. And they eventually seized upon abortion as the tool to achieve their goals. One article about this: politico.com
re: #69 Decatur Deb
Five million? Talk about a “golden” parachute.
re: #69 Decatur Deb
Sen Tuberville is still our state’s shining star:
Tuberville: Democrats will take ‘law-abiding’ citizens guns but give them to ‘illegal immigrants’ in military
It is a matter of RW doctrine that the Dems are out to take our guns and leave us defenseless against home invasions by Antifa/BLM rape and revenge gangs.
from new smax:
NewsNation’s GOP Debate Sees Shocking 82 Percent Drop in Audience
We have already heard everything we need to hear from these nitwits: Nothing but posturing and profiling for future cabinet posts/presidential campaigns.
And again, unless DJT is somehow physically (or legally) unable to run, he will win the nomination.
re: #71 Nerdy Fish
Given the extreme view, I’m changing up my discussion/debate/argument strategy. Instead of at least a first-trimester point of view, I’m gonna say the right to abortion should remain until the child turns 18. ///
re: #79 Rightwingconspirator
Given the extreme view, I’m changing up my discussion/debate/argument strategy. Instead of at least a first-trimester point of view, I’m gonna say the right to abortion should remain until the child turns 18. ///
Teenage Homicide
re: #79 Rightwingconspirator
Given the extreme view, I’m changing up my discussion/debate/argument strategy. Instead of at least a first-trimester point of view, I’m gonna say the right to abortion should remain until the child turns 18. ///
Ah, the age-old, “I brought you into this world, I can take you right back out of it” philosophy.///
re: #25 TarHellion
Enjoying the birbie run while it lasts.
In local news, my high school won its first state football championship since 1996 - getting the go-ahead score with just 36 seconds left. And today, Lenoir-Rhyne University - my alma mater - will take on Harding University in the Division II semifinals in Searcy, Ark. No private school has ever won the DII title, though either one will have a chance next week - more than likely against the Colorado School of Mines Orediggers.
Got my driver’s license renewed. The wait was less than 30 minutes, so got lucky there. Gonna check out Godzilla Minus One today with my lawyer buddy and fellow film nerd. Feels good to be able to get back out and about. All the best to everyone!
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re: #81 Nerdy Fish
Ah, the age-old, “I brought you into this world, I can take you right back out of it” philosophy.///
Yes, the old “I am the patriarch and my family are my chattel to do with as I please!” Heck, didn’t God call on Abraham to demonstrate that by killing his own son? Didn’t God himself do that with his own only son?
re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, the old “I am the patriarch and my family are my chattel to do with as I please!” Heck, didn’t God call on Abraham to demonstrate that by killing his own son? Didn’t God himself do that with his own only son?
I heard that phrase a lot more often from my mom, usually because my dad wasn’t anywhere near stupid enough to claim any part in bringing me into this world, given what my mom went through.
re: #84 Nerdy Fish
I heard that phrase a lot more often from my mom, usually because my dad wasn’t anywhere near stupid enough to claim any part in bringing me into this world, given what my mom went through.
That is the wrong approach. One of my favorite German jokes:
WIfe is vacuuming, asks her husband to lift his feet.
Husband replies: “See? You can’t get anything done around here without my help!”
re: #79 Rightwingconspirator
Given the extreme view, I’m changing up my discussion/debate/argument strategy. Instead of at least a first-trimester point of view, I’m gonna say the right to abortion should remain until the child turns 18. ///
It was 21 in Rome of the Republic.
re: #86 Decatur Deb
It was 21 in Rome of the Republic.
Keep in mind that a father would really have to think twice about killing a male offspring as there was no Social Security system to care for him in his dotage.
re: #58 Nojay UK
The one guy reminds me of NoHo Hank from Barry. Just needed him to say, “Hey, man, what’s up on this beautiful morning?”
Well, that was a lesson (painfully) learned. Our youngest cat was staring intently at the microwave as it was defrosting some breakfast sausage. And despite my years of living around cats, I missed all the signs that she wound tighter than piano wire and went to pet her. She jumped damn near to the ceiling, spun in mid-air, and landed on the floor in less than a 10 seconds while I managed to avoid anything worse than a couple of new scratches on my hand.
Note to self: When kitty goes absolutely still, do not touch.
re: #89 Targetpractice
Our cat is passed out under the table right now, but just a few minutes ago, she was making aerial bombing runs at my arms as I leaned over from the couch to type. When they’re in a mood, they’re in a mood.
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Keep in mind that a father would really have to think twice about killing a male offspring as there was no Social Security system to care for him in his dotage.
No problem—even counting out 1st yr mortality, papa wasn’t likely to live beyond 40.
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re: #84 Nerdy Fish
I heard that phrase a lot more often from my mom, usually because my dad wasn’t anywhere near stupid enough to claim any part in bringing me into this world, given what my mom went through.
My dad has told me the same story on more than once over the years: He’d just got home after a good day at work to find my mother in the midst of cooking, hair all frazzled and a dark aura around her, while my sister and I were nowhere in sight.
Her: “Your children.”
Him: “What do you mean ‘My children’?”
Her: “YOU WANTED THESE KIDS AS MUCH AS ME!”
Him: *with survival instincts of a lemming* “Hey, I was just poking you for fun, you’re the one who took it seriously!”
Cue a frying pan flying at his head, which was his cue to disappear to the local tavern until she was less likely to geld him with a paring knife.
re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So I need to buy some laundry detergent, my current box getting low.
For years I have used unscented soaps, as I can’t stand the scents added (of any kind, especially perfumes.) “Fresh scent” being among the most obnoxious.
Anyway, for years I have used Tide Free and Gentle.
So I go to buy a box and behold, P&G discontinued it earlier this year.
The excuse I found online via Reddit:
The reality is this: the powder form is too efficient. I can make a 95oz box last an entire year.
So P&G can sell roughly twice as many PODs or liquid containers equivalent to a single box of powder.
And getting back to our carbon budget: twice as many things shipped, and heavier (the water in the liquid form) means more energy consumed per load of laundry detergent.
I looked on Amazon a couple of months ago for a box of said Tide and it was a bit expensive, but I should have bought it then, because now the powder boxes are being treated as collector’s items, with an asking price of $46/box ! And even with Prime, not arriving until Christmas week.
Oh, and of course the smaller box (which P&G hadn’t made for some time) is even more expensive:
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Fortunately the Henkel Corp. still makes powder form of All fragrance-free detergent. But even then, Amazon only has the liquid form in stock (thankfully Walmart will come to my rescue here.)
Point being: “pods” are a pricing scam, but too many consumers are just too lazy to measure out detergent so they’ll pay multiples of what a box of powder cost.
And returning to the issue of climate change: this is why I am confident we will not avert from the worst case scenario for climate change - because people will want convenience over efficiency every damn time.
Arm and hammer fragrance free powder is also still available. From Amazon, even. It’s the one I’ve used for years.
re: #92 Targetpractice
That is a great story, and sounds very much like something my dad would have done, when he was young and stupid. By the time I was of age to remember things, he was less young and quite a bit less stupid.
re: #94 Nerdy Fish
That is a great story, and sounds very much like something my dad would have done, when he was young and stupid. By the time I was of age to remember things, he was less young and quite a bit less stupid.
Yes, he’s no longer that young.
That stupid? The jury’s still out.
My favorite Russian joke:
How did your first husband die?
Wife: He ate poison mushrooms!
And how did your second husband die?
Wife: He ate poison mushrooms!
And your third husband?
Wife: He was hit with a shovel and died of a brain concussion!
How did that happen?
Wife: De didn’t want to eat his mushrooms!
re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So I need to buy some laundry detergent, my current box getting low.
For years I have used unscented soaps, as I can’t stand the scents added (of any kind, especially perfumes.) “Fresh scent” being among the most obnoxious.
Anyway, for years I have used Tide Free and Gentle.
So I go to buy a box and behold, P&G discontinued it earlier this year.
The excuse I found online via Reddit:
The reality is this: the powder form is too efficient. I can make a 95oz box last an entire year.
So P&G can sell roughly twice as many PODs or liquid containers equivalent to a single box of powder.
And getting back to our carbon budget: twice as many things shipped, and heavier (the water in the liquid form) means more energy consumed per load of laundry detergent.
I looked on Amazon a couple of months ago for a box of said Tide and it was a bit expensive, but I should have bought it then, because now the powder boxes are being treated as collector’s items, with an asking price of $46/box ! And even with Prime, not arriving until Christmas week.
Oh, and of course the smaller box (which P&G hadn’t made for some time) is even more expensive:
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Fortunately the Henkel Corp. still makes powder form of All fragrance-free detergent. But even then, Amazon only has the liquid form in stock (thankfully Walmart will come to my rescue here.)
Point being: “pods” are a pricing scam, but too many consumers are just too lazy to measure out detergent so they’ll pay multiples of what a box of powder cost.
And returning to the issue of climate change: this is why I am confident we will not avert from the worst case scenario for climate change - because people will want convenience over efficiency every damn time.
re: #28 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
My brother a year or two ago gave people small boxes of laundry strips as stocking stuffers. The detergent is formed into a dissolvable sheet which you put into the washer first and then put the clothes in.
With the current apartment there is not a good place where the washer and dryer are to store detergent, etc. Once I worked through my existing supply of liquid laundry detergent* I tried them out and they worked rather well. I eventually ordered more of them and found that the company, TruEarth, also had a unscented variant which is what I opted for.
Not exactly cheap, but it was also less plastic being fed into my recycling bin. The contents of which I suspect might still be ending up in a landfill somewhere.
* - I gave to someone else one jug of Tide detergent I’d bought. Anything I washed with it simply reeked of whatever perfume they’d added. Made a few of my sweatshirts unwearable until I’d washed them again with an unscented detergent.
TruEarth unscented is a good sheet option, as is hypoallergenic ECOS plant powered laundry detergent sheets (free and clear of dyes and scents). Comes in 50 sheet boxes. does 50 full loads. No muss, no fuss, no plastic.
re: #98 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Beautiful leaf. Nice colors.
re: #68 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Another birbie. I’ll take it.
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re: #102 Eventual Carrion
My birdie put was too fast and I had to change gears to get a par.
re: #70 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Over at Reddit there’s a guy hoping for a software fix to the problem that he’s having using his Quest 2 headphones with the Quest 3. He initially revealed nothing about the headphones. You’re thinking they’re wireless, like everyone else did. When asked what the problem is, he replied that the cable is too short.
There are a lot of very stupid people on Reddit, but I’m still shocked. This is too dumb. It’s so dumb that I feel a little light-headed from the shock.
“Do not use hair dryer in shower “
re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is a matter of RW doctrine that the Dems are out to take our guns and leave us defenseless against home invasions by Antifa/BLM rape and revenge gangs.
And so far it’s happened zero times
re: #70 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Over at Reddit there’s a guy hoping for a software fix to the problem that he’s having using his Quest 2 headphones with the Quest 3. He initially revealed nothing about the headphones. You’re thinking they’re wireless, like everyone else did. When asked what the problem is, he replied that the cable is too short.
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Like the story of the young lady in tears in a parking lot because the battery in her car keys was dead and the remote was not working, unaware that she could just fold out the key and use it manually.
re: #69 Decatur Deb
Sen Tuberville is still our state’s shining star:
Tuberville: Democrats will take ‘law-abiding’ citizens guns but give them to ‘illegal immigrants’ in military
al.comRemember—Auburn paid this dolt $5,000,000 to quit.
A few years ago, a repug I knew was outraged to learn that Obama was allowing non-citizens to join the US military. He was unaware that this is traditional in the US forces, the US being one of the few countries that do not require citizenship as a condition of military service.
re: #34 jeffreyw
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I fitted one of those cookie tins with a divided liner so my daughter could put it in the sewing table drawer, but keep her jewelry in it. The theory being that they are so common as to possibly be overlooked in case of a robbery, but still easily accessible.
re: #93 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Arm and hammer fragrance free powder is also still available. From Amazon, even. It’s the one I’ve used for years.
I’ve found Arm & Hammer clumping kitty litter to be one of the best I have used. Not for clothes of course.
Best in far too long a while…
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Brigadier General Robert “Bob” Cardenas (1920-2022) was an engineer and Air Force test pilot. He was born in Merida, Mexico in 1920 and moved to San Diego with his family in 1925. The family’s immigration status at that point is a little murky but Bob was a US citizen by the time he joined the California National Guard in 1939. He went on to flight school and served in the USAAF and USAF until his retirement in 1973. He was a brilliant physicist, mathematician and technical analyst but is perhaps best known as the pilot of the B-29 mothership that launched Chuck Yeager and the X-1 on the historic first supersonic flight in 1947. He died on his 102nd birthday in 2022.
He is a much honored local hero in his hometown of Merida.
Hate Pastors’ “Flat Earth Debate” Ends In Profanities, Weed Smoking, Rammed Cars, “Police Involvement” https://t.co/D380xC9BjF pic.twitter.com/UzVCQS1kd8
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) December 9, 2023
re: #111 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Clearly a victim of the vaccines that the state pushed onto the American people.
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Those of you interested in song history: The River: A Songwriter’s Stories of the South
The River: A Songwriter’s Stories of the South is unlike anything you’ve seen. The visionary new film starring Nashville, Tennessee-based cosmic roots band Coyote Motel is a music and performance movie, but it’s also a cultural history, a memoir, and a psychedelic experience. In 10 songs and stories, The River explores the lives, lore, and locales along three great rivers of the American South—the Mississippi, the Cumberland, and the Tallahatchie.
Just won the Best International Feature Film at a major Festival in Europe. Personal connection and some notes below the fold.
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re: #112 Captain Ron
The weed smoking sounds nice, but the rest would harsh any mellow.
re: #69 Decatur Deb
Sen Tuberville is still our state’s shining star:
Tuberville: Democrats will take ‘law-abiding’ citizens guns but give them to ‘illegal immigrants’ in military
al.comRemember—Auburn paid this dolt $5,000,000 to quit.
Ummm, ol’ Tommy IS aware that they are called the “armed services” for a reason, right??
re: #110 (((Archangel1)))
Best in far too long a while…
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re: #112 Captain Ron
Hate Pastors’ “Flat Earth Debate” Ends In Profanities, Weed Smoking, Rammed Cars, “Police Involvement”
…as does most any debate on any topic between trailerpark redneck white trash.
re: #117 Jay C
Ummm, ol’ Tommy IS aware that they are called the “armed services” for a reason, right??
Tommy is also deliberately unaware that when we give guns to these new recruits, it’s accompanied with considerable training. The weapons are kept in the armory, have to be signed out to go to the range, ammo also has to be signed out and you’re expected to bring back as many empty casings as the bullets you checked out. You don’t get to take the weapon home with you, keep it under your bed, carry it around on base.
Other than the MPs, soldiers at a stateside base can only have guns when they’re at the range, or on the way to or from. When you see pictures of uniformed soldiers with weapons on their person, those photos were taken overseas in a combat zone.
Wouldn’t it be cool if these things were the size of manatees and as prevalant in our water ways as carp.
re: #121 darthstar
WRITER FUEL: Researchers have discovered the first evidence that male tardigrades can find females by scent.
We would have hunted them to extinction except for the ones kept as pets…
re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
…as does most any debate on any topic between trailerpark redneck white trash.
Sounds a lot like spring break
My neighbor across the hall (who I wrote a comment about here) has a girlfriend. She was knocking on his door this morning, and got no response. She called his phone, and it was in there, not getting answered. So she knocked on my door to see if I could help. We talked about whether he was expecting her (yes), whether he usually forgets his phone (no), and where he usually goes in the morning. She asked me if I had a, I forget what she called it, but some kind of thing that would open the door, which I don’t. We talked about 911, and the recent visits by EMTs, and she said that yesterday he asked her, ‘Am I going to die?’ I suggested that she call dispatch, and tell them what she told me, and they could do something. She was hemming and hawing and not deciding. I said, ‘It looks like you can either call dispatch, or go look for him.’ She pondered where she would look, and she called the nearest Starbucks and asked whether Ron was there. No. Then she called a restaurant/bar/nightclub that I’ve never been in, asked whether Ron was there, and they said yes. Whew!
I was surprised they were open. but I’m not judging. I used to go to a pool hall for breakfast in Portland. It was across the street, fast, and cheap.
re: #125 wrenchwench
My neighbor across the hall (who I wrote a comment about here) has a girlfriend. She was knocking on his door this morning, and got no response. She called his phone, and it was in there, not getting answered. So she knocked on my door to see if I could help. We talked about whether he was expecting her (yes), whether he usually forgets his phone (no), and where he usually goes in the morning. She asked me if I had a, I forget what she called it, but some kind of thing that would open the door, which I don’t. We talked about 911, and the recent visits by EMTs, and she said that yesterday he asked her, ‘Am I going to die?’ I suggested that she call dispatch, and tell them what she told me, and they could do something. She was hemming and hawing and not deciding. I said, ‘It looks like you can either call dispatch, or go look for him.’ She pondered where she would look, and she called the nearest Starbucks and asked whether Ron was there. No. Then she called a restaurant/bar/nightclub that I’ve never been in, asked whether Ron was there, and they said yes. Whew!
I was surprised they were open. but I’m not judging. I used to go to a pool hall for breakfast in Portland. It was across the street, fast, and cheap.
I know a few bars that do brunches around here. Hopefully he’s doing breakfast and not shots, but glad it ended well! But it sounds like he’s going through some really tough things.
re: #40 Belafon
I can’t see anything about Krampus without thinking about SCP-4666, The Yule Man Do not read this if you want to sleep well ever again.
re: #1 Targetpractice
In other words the “temporary” part is total horseshit, they can slow-walk this disaster until she’s dead or rendered infertile, then shrug their shoulders and mumble something about the “the wheels of justice” while Paxton smugly tells the aghast public that he was just “enforcing the law.”
If I were her, I’d get myself off to New Mexico and get the abortion and not tell anyone and let the court case progress. This was one of the problems with Roe, the issue would resolve itself in nine months. I don’t know how the Supreme Court handled it in 1971-1972 (why yes, Roe, like Brown v Board of Education, was held over to a second term), but I would definitely NOT be telling these assholes I’d gotten the abortion (thus making the case moot) while driving the case forward.
re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is a matter of RW doctrine that the Dems are out to take our guns and leave us defenseless against home invasions by
Antifa/BLMblack rape and revenge gangs.
Edited for accuracy.
Actually they use the n-word.
re: #16 Targetpractice
I have to disagree, if there were no political upside then such laws would not have a snowball’s chance in Hell of ever passing simply because Repubs wouldn’t see the point. So yes, there is a political upside, if only to the sort of soulless monsters who think Ken Paxton some paragon of “LAW & ORDER!!!”.
There are people out there, they call themselves “abolitionists” (which is their way of stealing from the struggle to free the slaves). They want to abolish abortion. And they REALLY DO MEAN IT. So yeah, your ectopic pregnancy? Too bad for you. Your failed miscarriage that left tissue behind that’s turning septic? Too bad, so sad. And I’ve not even touched on the abortions women get that don’t involve serious medical issues. These people don’t want abortions EVER and they will see women and girls dead before giving up on that.
These are the people who are at that church near my house, they are abolitionists. They are *terrifying*.
re: #130 mmmirele
There are people out there, they call themselves “abolitionists” (which is their way of stealing from the struggle to free the slaves). They want to abolish abortion. And they REALLY DO MEAN IT.
and abolish contraception. And inspect all childbearing-age women leaving and re-entering the USA for signs of having had an abortion
fun fun fun with a Karen at the gym wearing a MAGA Hat and a T-shirt with JC embracing Trump. Endless blabbing about The Big G loves trump and Fuck Joe Biden. She wouldn’t shut up…
re: #129 Romantic Heretic
Edited for accuracy.
Actually they use the n-word.
Tell me about it. I endlessly hear the “n” word from callers I deal with at work…
re: #28 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
My brother a year or two ago gave people small boxes of laundry strips as stocking stuffers. The detergent is formed into a dissolvable sheet which you put into the washer first and then put the clothes in.
With the current apartment there is not a good place where the washer and dryer are to store detergent, etc. Once I worked through my existing supply of liquid laundry detergent* I tried them out and they worked rather well. I eventually ordered more of them and found that the company, TruEarth, also had a unscented variant which is what I opted for.
Not exactly cheap, but it was also less plastic being fed into my recycling bin. The contents of which I suspect might still be ending up in a landfill somewhere.
* - I gave to someone else one jug of Tide detergent I’d bought. Anything I washed with it simply reeked of whatever perfume they’d added. Made a few of my sweatshirts unwearable until I’d washed them again with an unscented detergent.
We use Earth Breeze (unscented) and have been very happy with the product.
re: #134 Backwoods Sleuth
P&G has a new carbon-neutral set of cleaning products EC-30. I’ve been using their toilet cleaning and laundry swatches and they do an adequate job.
Since the subject is laundry detergent this one is my favorite.
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The latest from Charlie Jerk…
Charlie Kirk: “Ronna McRomney” Was Planted By Dems
“You’re a loser. A professional Romney infiltrating loser. Is there any difference now between the RNC and the DNC? I have a real question. Is Ronna McRomney there to make sure we lose in 2024? I am telling president Trump privately and publicly that he better remove her. Does Ronna Romney want Donald Trump in prison? That’s a really interesting question. Is she an op? I really think she’s an infiltration at this point. I think she’s an infiltration.” - Charlie Kirk.
But remember folks, The New York Times will ignore this and continue with their “Democrats In Disarray” bullshit no matter what!
Cops Can’t Determine Who Leaked Writings From School Shooter
Conservative media personality Steven Crowder posted the images online which show three pages of writing from the journals of Covenant School shooter, Audrey Hale.
A month after writings connected to the suspect accused of shooting six people at a private Tennessee Christian school in March surfaced online, police on Friday admitted they have no idea who is responsible for the leak.
Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake revealed on Friday that investigators have “exhausted all available investigative avenues to identify the person who leaked photographs containing three pages of writings from the Covenant School shooter.” He confirmed that the leak showed pages from the shooter’s journals, which were taken by detectives on the scene of the March 27 school shooting.
During the grisly massacre, police say 28-year-old Audrey Hale shot six people, including three children, at the Covenant School. Police say that Hale broke into the school by shooting through the glass of locked doors, and the suspect was gunned down just minutes later by Nashville police.
The victims were identified as 9-year-old students Hallie Scrugg, Evelyn Dieckhaus, and William Kinney, as well as three staff members: Cynthia Peak, a substitute teacher; Katherine Koonce, the school’s headmistress; and Mike Hill, a janitor.
Police previously said that investigators found multiple journals in Hale’s car and home that were akin to a “manifesto.” Drake previously described that the writings detailed the “date, the actual incident… of how [the shooting] was all going to take place.” Inside a Honda Fit that Hale drove and parked at the church-based school’s campus, police say they found “additional material written by Hale.”
For months, however, authorities have denied releasing the writings to the public, sparking a legal battle that includes a case currently pending in the Tennessee Court of Appeals.
Then, last month, three photographs taken of the journals were leaked to conservative media personality Steven Crowder, who posted the images online. He later told WSMV that he did not regret posting the images that showed hate-filled language directed toward the school and a timeline of the events.
re: #81 Nerdy Fish
Ah, the age-old, “I brought you into this world, I can take you right back out of it” philosophy.///
Classic version of the Roman pater familias in which the elder male in the family pretty much had autocratic control over every member of the family and their property.
re: #107 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
A few years ago, a repug I knew was outraged to learn that Obama was allowing non-citizens to join the US military. He was unaware that this is traditional in the US forces, the US being one of the few countries that do not require citizenship as a condition of military service.
In my unit (1965) we had non-citizen US residents who were drafted. Their option was to return to Italy and other countries of origin.
re: #138 Joe Bacon ✅
Inside a Honda Fit that Hale drove and parked at the church-based school’s campus, police say they found “additional material written by Hale.”
There is almost always a motor vehicle involved in these mass shootings. Since owning a car is not in the Constitution, we should do complete background checks and have waiting periods and frequent re-tests both written and behind the wheel, to issue a license and registration.
re: #109 Eventual Carrion
I’ve found Arm & Hammer clumping kitty litter to be one of the best I have used. Not for clothes of course.
My sister-in-law concurs with that opinion. I tend to use it as well. Though the box of whatever variant I am currently using has a scent to it I find mildly annoying.
re: #120 sagehen
Tommy is also deliberately unaware that when we give guns to these new recruits, it’s accompanied with considerable training. The weapons are kept in the armory, have to be signed out to go to the range, ammo also has to be signed out and you’re expected to bring back as many empty casings as the bullets you checked out. You don’t get to take the weapon home with you, keep it under your bed, carry it around on base.
Other than the MPs, soldiers at a stateside base can only have guns when they’re at the range, or on the way to or from. When you see pictures of uniformed soldiers with weapons on their person, those photos were taken overseas in a combat zone.
Heck, most military bases are more “gun free zones” than any piece of civilian turf.
Possible exception being the NRA HQ in Virginia.
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re: #141 Decatur Deb
In my unit (1965) we had non-citizen US residents who were drafted. Their option was to return to Italy and other countries of origin.
There’s a scene in Generation Kill where they get frustrated with the non-citizen marine from Brazil who reverts to using Portuguese on comms whenever shit starts to go sideways.
re: #141 Decatur Deb
In my unit (1965) we had non-citizen US residents who were drafted. Their option was to return to Italy and other countries of origin.
PBS had a documentary last year, about a whole community of US veterans who’d been deported to Mexico. At least they speak Spanish, and some of them were in the service long enough to have pensions, which is enough to live on there if you ignore that it’s not the country they want to live in. And some of them have service-related disabilities, but they can’t access VA healthcare.
Was there not recently a case of a soldier from Mexico who had served and been honorably discharged but was still being deported?
re: #145 goddamnedfrank
There’s a scene in Generation Kill where they get frustrated with the non-citizen marine from Brazil who reverts to using Portuguese on comms whenever shit starts to go sideways.
Seriously good film—almost a documentary.
re: #145 goddamnedfrank
There’s a scene in Generation Kill where they get frustrated with the non-citizen marine from Brazil who reverts to using Portuguese on comms whenever shit starts to go sideways.
I see that with the group I play Arma 3 with. It’s a game, but there is still a stress jump when the AI opens fire on you or other distractions kick in. English is not the first language of about 1/3 of the players there and accents suddenly get a lot thicker and sometimes the yelling and comms switches into something other than English.
One op an entire fireteam was simply doing their internal comms in German since they all spoke it. Luckily it wasn’t a WW2 op since that could have caused difficulties. (Depending on the mod pack the AI will speak in different languages. Thus the meme about the trees speaking Vietnamese.)
re: #132 Joe Bacon ✅
fun fun fun with a Karen at the gym wearing a MAGA Hat and a T-shirt with JC embracing Trump. Endless blabbing about The Big G loves trump and Fuck Joe Biden. She wouldn’t shut up…
Might have to open a ‘Marjorie’ subset designator for part of the Karen population.
I hope the Biden campaign is going to use Trump’s clip with Chris Matthews where he talks about punishment for women that get abortions, juxtaposed with Katie Cox’s miserable ordeal in Texas.
NPS news release: Three national scenic trails designated as units of the National Park System
Three national scenic trails have become the country’s newest national parks, raising the total number of existing parks from 425 to 428. The Ice Age, New England, and North Country national scenic trails, all previously established by Congress and administered by the National Park Service as part of the National Trails System, are now also recognized as units of the National Park System.
Doubt much will change. I’ve done parts of Ice Age and North Country. Great trails. They join the Appalachian, Natchez Trace, and Potomac Heritage trails in the national park system.
Ice Age is about 1200 miles long and somehow stays entirely in Wisconsin. North Country is projected to be 4600 miles long (Appalachian Trail is “only” about 2200 miles long, so North Country takes a bit longer than needed for two Argentinian mistresses).
re: #125 wrenchwench
My neighbor across the hall (who I wrote a comment about here) has a girlfriend. She was knocking on his door this morning, and got no response. She called his phone, and it was in there, not getting answered. So she knocked on my door to see if I could help. We talked about whether he was expecting her (yes), whether he usually forgets his phone (no), and where he usually goes in the morning. She asked me if I had a, I forget what she called it, but some kind of thing that would open the door, which I don’t. We talked about 911, and the recent visits by EMTs, and she said that yesterday he asked her, ‘Am I going to die?’ I suggested that she call dispatch, and tell them what she told me, and they could do something. She was hemming and hawing and not deciding. I said, ‘It looks like you can either call dispatch, or go look for him.’ She pondered where she would look, and she called the nearest Starbucks and asked whether Ron was there. No. Then she called a restaurant/bar/nightclub that I’ve never been in, asked whether Ron was there, and they said yes. Whew!
I was surprised they were open. but I’m not judging. I used to go to a pool hall for breakfast in Portland. It was across the street, fast, and cheap.
There’s power in making a decision: Instead of dying go get something to eat.
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