A New Live Concert by Jeff Tweedy and Wilco, Live on KEXP

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kexp.org presents Wilco performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded October 18, 2023.

Jeff Tweedy - Guitar / Vocals
John Stirratt - Bass / Vocals
Glenn Kotche - Drums
Nels Cline - Guitars
Patrick Sansone - Guitars / Vocals / Keys
Mikael Jorgensen - Keys

Songs:
Pittsburgh
Levee
Cousin
Soldier Child

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Host: Cheryl Waters
Audio Engineers: Jared Dottorelli, Julian Martlew, Keith Nelson & Kevin Suggs
Audio Mixer: Kevin Suggs
Mastering: Matt Ogaz
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Carlos Cruz, Alaia D’Alessandro, Scott Holpainen & Luke Knecht
Editor: Jim Beckmann
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A Cranky One  Dec 26, 2023 • 4:42:47pm

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 4:51:41pm

When I was living in Steamboat Springs, CO I got a package out of the blue from Dad. He’d just got a good CD burner (remember those things?) and he sent me, unprompted, a bunch of music. Kicking Television: Live in Chicago by Wilco was in that package on two burned CDs with a note, “You NEED to listen to this album.”

I miss him.

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Jay C  Dec 26, 2023 • 4:52:34pm

re: #1 A Cranky One

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Well, he invented the telephone, so “Lord Of The Ring(tone)s” isn’t too inappropriate…

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Charles Johnson  Dec 26, 2023 • 4:54:01pm

re: #1 A Cranky One

I admit it, this one made me LOL. I rarely LOL.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 26, 2023 • 4:54:31pm

I usually lolwut.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 26, 2023 • 4:58:22pm

This was a freaking awesome band. One of the best live shows I ever saw.

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:00:07pm

Of course the first song on this set is called Pittsburgh, the city my Dad was born in.

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:06:25pm

Pittsburgh is a great Wilco tune, they still got it. Made me weep, “I wish Dad could’ve heard this one.”

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A Cranky One  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:10:54pm

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A Cranky One  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:11:09pm

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A Cranky One  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:11:24pm

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Charles Johnson  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:11:58pm

I’m not opting out of public posts on Bluesky, because I’ve never tried to be anonymous and it’s kinda too fucking late at this point anyway.

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:12:09pm

On Cousin Jeff Tweedy sings “It never hurts to cry” over and over.

Thanks, Jeff.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:17:43pm

Bluesky now supports embedded shit from YouTube, Twitch, Soundcloud, Spotify, and maybe others.

So what is twitch.tv about? Is this a gamer thing, because my god the site is hideous. How do you find something to watch at Twitch? And not want to retch?

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:21:57pm

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darthstar  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:23:12pm

Got up to the cabin and unloaded some new furniture and a big hunk of Brazilian cow hide (from a cow butchered for its meat). TV’s actually out of the box now but one pic a day is enough. Having a quick tequila then heading to the restaurant at the other end of the golf course.

Beach chair has been moved - ladder still has needs upstairs. Shelves will be replaced and filled with CDs we delayed donating - will bring those up next time…looking for a quality used component stereo system with some big-ass speakers to augment the evolving groove pit.

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:25:45pm

These people are not “just offering some constructive criticism to the government of Israel.” This is full blown antisemitism.

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:27:58pm

We’re having some issues with the database server, if you notice some slowness tonight. We may need to think about starting comments all over for the new year. Maybe archive what’s there somehow and do the big reset.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:33:49pm

re: #18 Vicious Babushka

These people are not “just offering some constructive criticism to the government of Israel.” This is full blown antisemitism.

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Depressing becuase it’s getting worse here. The LA Tenant’s Union decided to join forces with pro-Palestine activists. They’re the latest to follow DSA’s embracing an anti-Israel stance.

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retired cynic  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:34:12pm

@TheRealHoarse
One more of the barn #owl I saw today. So crazy lucky.

Love the napping with eyes almost closed, one talon curled up in the air.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:39:32pm

Gee, who could be the next to take the off ramp from the GOP Presidential race?

On Tuesday, NBC News reported entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has cancelled all remaining television ad spending campaigns in Iowa and New Hampshire, and has so far not bought any new TV spots as the Iowa Republican Caucuses approach on January 15. His campaign insists that the cancellation of TV ads is simply the campaign adapting to a strategy of a “hypertargeted” approach to advertising.

Looks like it’s Ramadamadingdong heading for the exit ramp!

nbcnews.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:44:33pm

Santa stopped with the coal and now bad little kids get this!

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:45:59pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

It’s better now. It’s air bubbles in the tubes I suppose, and the hamsters can only work so hard.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:49:28pm

re: #24 teleskiguy

The internet gets weird sometimes.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:51:07pm

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Florida Panhandler  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:51:30pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

Bluesky now supports embedded shit from YouTube, Twitch, Soundcloud, Spotify, and maybe others.

So what is twitch.tv about? Is this a gamer thing, because my god the site is hideous. How do you find something to watch at Twitch? And not want to retch?

Twitch is a general free-for-all of creativity, meaning a lot of it sucks. But there are some truly gifted musicians and various streamers on the site. Video game streamers are the biggest draw. Even if you are not a fan of video games, some streamers will resonate with an audience based merely on character and the atmosphere generated in Chat.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:56:34pm

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:56:36pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Tell me about it. Oh, wait…

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 26, 2023 • 5:58:19pm

Latest update:

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:01:56pm

re: #30 Vicious Babushka

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:02:48pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

Twitch is odd. It’s really a website that caters to cliques, where one person gets some friends/supporters to play along with them and subscribe.

Amazon Prime includes one Twitch subscription.

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:03:51pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:05:16pm

re: #33 Vicious Babushka

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:05:31pm

re: #22 Joe Bacon ✅

He’s far too foreign for Iowa.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:05:37pm
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KingKenrod  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:06:42pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

Bluesky now supports embedded shit from YouTube, Twitch, Soundcloud, Spotify, and maybe others.

So what is twitch.tv about? Is this a gamer thing, because my god the site is hideous. How do you find something to watch at Twitch? And not want to retch?

It’s a cheap way to stream stuff to an audience without having to deal with youtube’s copyright strike system. And you can still make money from ads if your audience is big enough.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:07:10pm

Would anyone weep if our gigantic comments database table was suddenly reset to zero?

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Charles Johnson  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:08:25pm

Not gonna do it right away but I am thinkin’ about it.

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:08:48pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Would anyone weep if our gigantic comments database table was suddenly reset to zero?

What does this mean? That all those millions of comments get erased?

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Charles Johnson  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:09:34pm

Not erased, archived in a separate area.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:10:25pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Would anyone weep if our gigantic comments database table was suddenly reset to zero?

How about archiving everything prior to, say, 2009 or some other “significant” date. I’d hate to see us all the way back to zero.

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:10:34pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

Oh. Well, yeah. Do it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:19:48pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

Not erased, archived in a separate area.

Fine by me, as long as I can access them some way.

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:21:13pm

I skied 15,000 vertical feet in two hours today.

That’s a lot for you non-ski-freak normies. It’s called charging downhill, getting after it!

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:21:33pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Would anyone weep if our gigantic comments database table was suddenly reset to zero?

Zero is a bit drastic, I’d reset it to something like the last five years or so to keep it relevant.

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Mattand  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:23:50pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

Not erased, archived in a separate area.

Yeah, go for it.

We’re having a similar problem at work right now. IT is trying to figure out how to keep literally terabytes of data representing nearly 20 years of digital art accessible to a WFH workforce without choking remote connectivity.

One issue we have is that the artists constantly have to search and retrieve old art to set up new projects. I think IT wants to wish the archive to the cornfield, never to be seen again. Which isn’t gonna work for us.

I’m guessing the past comments would still be available through a separate link/site?

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Mattand  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:25:57pm

re: #45 teleskiguy

I skied 15,000 vertical feet in two hours today.

That’s a lot for you non-ski-freak normies. It’s called charging downhill, getting after it!

I walked 31,680 feet horizontally over the course of nine hours today.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:26:01pm

re: #47 Mattand

Still thinking through all the implications, but yes, that’s the general idea.

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:26:50pm

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:28:55pm

re: #48 Mattand

I walked 31,680 feet horizontally over the course of nine hours today.

I skied that vertical feet, or close to it, last time I skied Vail. When someone gets 30K in vert we call that an Everest.

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Mattand  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:29:59pm

re: #50 Vicious Babushka

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teleskiguy  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:31:06pm

re: #48 Mattand

I walked 31,680 feet horizontally over the course of nine hours today.

That is so much fucking walking, 7 or so miles. That’s the distance to the next town from my house. You work for Amazon?

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Mattand  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:31:28pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

Still thinking through all the implications, but yes, that’s the general idea.

Me personally, I almost never search for past comments, whether they are mine or someone else’s.

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:37:05pm

Mood.

Mastodon

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:39:59pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Would anyone weep if our gigantic comments database table was suddenly reset to zero?

I don’t think I’ve ever searched for comments more than a couple of articles prior to the current one. It wouldn’t cause me any grief if you moved them off the active DB.

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Mattand  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:40:05pm

re: #53 teleskiguy

That is so much fucking walking, 7 or so miles. That’s the distance to the next town from my house. You work for Amazon?

No, an even bigger maniac than Bezos:

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Decatur Deb  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:45:19pm

But there are immortal, irreplaceable comments like “Booger”.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:45:30pm

re: #22 Joe Bacon ✅

Gee, who could be the next to take the off ramp from the GOP Presidential race?

On Tuesday, NBC News reported entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has cancelled all remaining television ad spending campaigns in Iowa and New Hampshire, and has so far not bought any new TV spots as the Iowa Republican Caucuses approach on January 15. His campaign insists that the cancellation of TV ads is simply the campaign adapting to a strategy of a “hypertargeted” approach to advertising.

Looks like it’s Ramadamadingdong heading for the exit ramp!

nbcnews.com

Why bother when you’re running for VP.

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Mattand  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:46:00pm

re: #53 teleskiguy

This was our Xmas Eve walk around downtown Philly. Over 4.5 miles.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:47:27pm

re: #60 Mattand

This was our Xmas Eve walk around downtown Philly. Over 4.5 miles.

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Someone walks 4.5 miles in this town, they’ve got a couple DUIs.

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:48:39pm

re: #30 Vicious Babushka

Latest update:

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That’s good to hear, and congrats to them.

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Mattand  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:51:16pm

re: #61 Decatur Deb

Someone walks 4.5 miles in this town, they’ve got a couple DUIs.

LOL. Assuming we’re talking Decatur, GA: yeah, that’s pretty tight.

Had no idea Decatur was that close to Atlanta. The stuff you learn because of this site.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:52:52pm

I say archive everything but save posts from 9/11 and the weeks after. As long as the archive can be searched, I’d be on board.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:55:42pm

re: #54 Mattand

Me personally, I almost never search for past comments, whether they are mine or someone else’s.

I’ve occasionally looked at some very old comments from your archive database. Would those be gone?

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Decatur Deb  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:56:33pm

re: #63 Mattand

LOL. Assuming we’re talking Decatur, GA: yeah, that’s pretty tight.

Had no idea Decatur was that close to Atlanta. The stuff you learn because of this site.

Don’t know which Decatur the Deb was from (pilot’s girlfriend). Check my profile.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 26, 2023 • 6:57:21pm

Damn I wasn’t able to score tickets for tonight’s Big Show!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 26, 2023 • 7:03:35pm

re: #66 Decatur Deb

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Decatur Deb  Dec 26, 2023 • 7:07:34pm

U.S. Cities and Counties Named for Stephen Decatur

Cities
Decatur, Alabama
Decatur, Arkansas
Decatur, Georgia
Decatur, Illinois
Decatur, Indiana
Decatur, Michigan
Decatur, Mississippi
Decatur, Nebraska
Decatur, Tennessee
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Decaturville, Tennessee

Counties
Decatur County, Tennessee
Decatur County, Georgia
Decatur County, Indiana
Decatur County, Iowa
Decatur County, Kansas
decaturga.com

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 26, 2023 • 7:09:33pm

re: #54 Mattand

Me personally, I almost never search for past comments, whether they are mine or someone else’s.

It’s an extremely valuable feature.

For example, let me praise Ghost again for a second because as I’ve said he’s easily one the most eloquent, erudite and perspicacious motherfuckers operating in written English. So when I remember he posted some really good shit about the process of cognition and consciousness last year it’s fairly easy to find.

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darthstar  Dec 26, 2023 • 7:13:07pm

Mastodon

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Mattand  Dec 26, 2023 • 7:21:15pm

re: #67 Joe Bacon ✅

Damn I wasn’t able to score tickets for tonight’s Big Show!

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Here’s the theater in question:
cinematreasures.org

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 26, 2023 • 7:31:41pm

re: #67 Joe Bacon ✅

Damn I wasn’t able to score tickets for tonight’s Big Show!

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Well at least I can see The Ape Man (AKA They Creep In The Dark!)

The Ape Man 1943 | Horror, Sci-Fi | Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford | Movie, Subtitles

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 26, 2023 • 7:36:36pm

Mastodon

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Jay C  Dec 26, 2023 • 7:37:02pm

re: #72 Mattand

re: #67 Joe Bacon ✅

Damn I wasn’t able to score tickets for tonight’s Big Show!

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Here’s the theater in question:
cinematreasures.org

You’re definitely a bit late for those tickets, Joe: according to a commenter at Mattand’s link, Bela Lugosi’s big Horror Show was on this date in 1950. Before even MY time….
Must have been something to see, though.

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Unabogie  Dec 26, 2023 • 7:37:46pm

Drug laws are worse than drugs.

washingtonpost.com

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HRH Stanley Sea  Dec 26, 2023 • 7:53:38pm

re: #69 Decatur Deb

Dude died from a duel. Over an argument basically. Pity those times.

Decatur’s life and distinguished service in the U.S. Navy came to an early end when in 1820 Commodore James Barron challenged Decatur to a duel, related in part to comments Decatur had made over Barron’s conduct in the Chesapeake-Leopard affair of 1807. Because of Barron’s loss of Chesapeake to the British

Now in their positions, each duelist raised his pistol, cocked the flintlock and, while taking aim, stood in silence. Bainbridge called out, ‘One’ and Decatur and Barron both fired before the count of ‘two’. Decatur’s shot hit Barron in the lower abdomen and ricocheted into his thigh. Barron’s shot hit Decatur in the pelvic area, severing arteries. Both of the duelists fell almost at the same instant. Decatur, mortally wounded and clutching his side, exclaimed, “Oh, Lord, I am a dead man.”

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Dec 26, 2023 • 7:57:00pm

My list of things we could not bribe the Texas legislature to do no matter how much money we had:

1. Commit mass suicide.
2. Uh, does anyone else have any ideas?

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Randall Gross  Dec 26, 2023 • 8:05:59pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

We’re having some issues with the database server, if you notice some slowness tonight. We may need to think about starting comments all over for the new year. Maybe archive what’s there somehow and do the big reset.

Just a suggestion: create a second searchable comment DB and archive everything pre year 2018 into it to keep the most recent 5 years or so, and roll another year into the archive DB annually going forward.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Dec 26, 2023 • 8:08:32pm

re: #69 Decatur Deb

U.S. Cities and Counties Named for Stephen Decatur

Cities
Decatur, Alabama
Decatur, Arkansas
Decatur, Georgia
Decatur, Illinois
Decatur, Indiana
Decatur, Michigan
Decatur, Mississippi
Decatur, Nebraska
Decatur, Tennessee
Decatur, Texas
Decaturville, Tennessee

Counties
Decatur County, Tennessee
Decatur County, Georgia
Decatur County, Indiana
Decatur County, Iowa
Decatur County, Kansas
decaturga.com

USS Decatur

Five ships of the United States Navy have been named Decatur, in honor of Commodore Stephen Decatur.

USS Decatur (1839), was a sloop-of-war built in 1839 and in service from 1840 to 1859.
USS Decatur (DD-5), was a Bainbridge-class destroyer which served mainly in or near the Philippines from 1902 to 1919.
USS Decatur (DD-341), was a Clemson-class destroyer which served from 1922 to 1945.
USS Decatur (DDG-31), was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer in service from 1956 to 1983, later converted to become the first Self Defense Test Ship.
USS Decatur (DDG-73), is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer commissioned in 1998 and currently in active service.

There was also a privateer named Decatur during the War of 1812 (while Decatur was still alive and in active service)

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Dec 26, 2023 • 8:15:29pm

Decatur Deb lives in what we call LA. Lower Alabama.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 26, 2023 • 8:22:03pm

My sister always hid her Nancy Drew books…eventually I found out why…

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 26, 2023 • 8:44:42pm

re: #55 Vicious Babushka

Mood.

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silverdolphin  Dec 26, 2023 • 9:10:15pm

re: #74 Vicious Babushka

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Pendantic mode on . Very true but for one small thing - Smith and Carlos did not have their medals taken. The Nazi-sympathizer, Avery Brundage, demanded they be banned from the Olympic Village. And according to Wikipedia, the USOC tried to do the right thing, initially balked at the ban but following a threat from Brundage, who threatened to an the entire American team, they sent the two home.

So, just a small detail as the reason for the banning was obviously racism. But the USOC tried to stand for the right thing in not banning them and did not take their medals.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 26, 2023 • 9:11:46pm

re: #12 A Cranky One

what idiot named them jet skis instead of
boatercycles

You stood up to ride the original jet skis, and do free style tricks.

How To Backflip Jet Ski / PWC / Water Scooter

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Belafon  Dec 26, 2023 • 9:13:34pm

A research topic for economics majors: How your 401K is making everything expensive.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 26, 2023 • 9:17:12pm

re: #86 Belafon

It has been a long-time soap-box of mine, that people expecting exponential returns on investments is an exercise in delusion, if we expect it to go on forever.

The problem is that exponential returns lead to a few people owning everything.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 26, 2023 • 9:23:10pm

re: #76 Unabogie

Drug laws are worse than drugs.

washingtonpost.com

“South Korea’s laws are so stringent that Koreans who take drugs legally while abroad can still face prosecution upon returning home, according to AFP.”

Damn, that’s messed up.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 26, 2023 • 9:27:52pm

re: #24 teleskiguy

It’s better now. It’s air bubbles in the tubes I suppose, and the hamsters can only work so hard.

We had those problems in Miami FL, always figured it was land crabs in the underground phone lines.

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Belafon  Dec 26, 2023 • 9:33:01pm

re: #88 Eclectic Cyborg

“South Korea’s laws are so stringent that Koreans who take drugs legally while abroad can still face prosecution upon returning home, according to AFP.”

Damn, that’s messed up.

Texas could prosecute people who get high in Colorado. And you could get fired from a government contractor job for getting high even if your state allows it.

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IngisKahn  Dec 26, 2023 • 9:34:50pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

Not erased, archived in a separate area.

Putting on DBA hat…

Why would this be necessary? Seem like proper indexing or even more drastically, partitioning, would handle any size table.

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Belafon  Dec 26, 2023 • 9:47:45pm

re: #91 IngisKahn

Putting on DBA hat…

Why would this be necessary? Seem like proper indexing or even more drastically, partitioning, would handle any size table.

The problem is that you are doing text pattern searching. That’s not really what most databases are designed for, and is generally just a linear search through the database.

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Belafon  Dec 26, 2023 • 10:03:36pm

There are times when, in Zinn’s book, such as:

The rich, giving part of their enormous earnings in this way, became known as philanthropists. These educational systems [Vanderbilt, Duke, Cornell, Stanford, Hampton, Tuskegee Institute] did not encourage dissent; they trained the middlemen in the American system - the teachers, doctors, lawyers, administrators, engineers, technicians, politicians- those who would be paid to keep the system going, to be loyal buffers against trouble.

Seem to make just about everyone complicit in the effort to hand all the money to the rich.

I’m also annoyed at his next paragraph, which includes the sentence “it was important that these people [students learning to read, write and do math] learn obedience to authority.” How is this different than any other part of human history, and what would his opposite be, “yes, sometime 2+2 doesn’t have to be four, it can be five”?

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 26, 2023 • 10:03:55pm

re: #74 Vicious Babushka

History is the version of past events that every one has agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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retired cynic  Dec 26, 2023 • 10:16:23pm

re: #94 Romantic Heretic

THAT’s our problem!

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 26, 2023 • 10:33:21pm

I didn’t actually see Kanye’s Hebrew note before but of course the text is left justified LOL!

I’m not sure David has it quite right above. It’s not that Kanye only sees Israelis as Jews, it’s that he sees Jews as only truly belonging in Israel, and his misaligned Hebrew text is a kind of nod to the dual loyalty trope and Christian Zionist premillennial dispensationalists. So it’s truly fucked up to see the ADL just stupidly walk into that buzzsaw again and again because their leadership just won’t accept the reality of a Judaism that isn’t monolithically nationalist.

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IngisKahn  Dec 26, 2023 • 10:33:39pm

re: #92 Belafon

The problem is that you are doing text pattern searching. That’s not really what most databases are designed for, and is generally just a linear search through the database.

K, that leads to more questions. Why would a text search be needed? Why wouldn’t the searching be over a fixed range of records anyway? Are there modern databases that don’t support full text indexing?

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 26, 2023 • 10:38:10pm

Just watched Leave the World Behind and enjoyed it. Yes, it had several weak points but liked it — and its message.

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Captain Ron  Dec 26, 2023 • 10:49:02pm

I’m watching Sniper: G.R.I.T. (AKA Sniper #10).

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 26, 2023 • 10:55:43pm

re: #99 Captain Ron

I’m watching Sniper: G.R.I.T. (AKA Sniper #10).

Arcane on Netflix is surprisingly very good.

Arcane | Official Trailer | Netflix

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Dec 26, 2023 • 10:57:52pm

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If it was a poker hand, it would be cheating.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 26, 2023 • 11:01:01pm

Microsoft is such a pain.

Wanted to install VS Code on my Mac. Because my Mac is old I cannot use the latest version, but needed a version from last year.

Couldn’t find it on the VS Code website, but Google came to my rescue. Microsoft did not list in their help section the full revision number that I needed.

I install it via information Google gave me… it worked, but then I wanted to change some preferences, making the fonts larger.

Of course one had to restart the program for the changes take affect.

So I tried that… but then VS Code says it is not compatible with my version of MacOS.

Which I thought strange, as I had just run it.

Then I checked the version in my Applications folder… and all of a sudden it was the latest version.

Then I remembered how people complain about auto-updates in Microsoft Windows, so I figured that was the problem.

Microsoft auto-updates the version of VS Code without checking if the new version is compatible with my computer.

How dumb.

Why in the hell is there even an auto-update option on by default?

So I had to re-install the old version (fortunately I keep downloaded packages of software, unlike so many poorly thought out recommendations one finds by so-called experts in Youtube videos).

First thing I did was change the prefs to cancel auto-updates.

If I were King, one of the first things I’d do (after banning leaf-blowers) is to declare that no software can be auto—updated by default.

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William Lewis  Dec 26, 2023 • 11:11:47pm

re: #102 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Microsoft is such a pain.

Wanted to install VS Code on my Mac. Because my Mac is old I cannot use the latest version, but needed a version from last year.

Couldn’t find it on the VS Code website, but Google came to my rescue. Microsoft did not list in their help section the full revision number that I needed.

I install it via information Google gave me… it worked, but then I wanted to change some preferences, making the fonts larger.

Of course one had to restart the program for the changes take affect.

So I tried that… but then VS Code says it is not compatible with my version of MacOS.

Which I thought strange, as I had just run it.

Then I checked the version in my Applications folder… and all of a sudden it was the latest version.

Then I remembered how people complain about auto-updates in Microsoft Windows, so I figured that was the problem.

Microsoft auto-updates the version of VS Code without checking if the new version is compatible with my computer.

How dumb.

Why in the hell is there even an auto-update option on by default?

So I had to re-install the old version (fortunately I keep downloaded packages of software, unlike so many poorly thought out recommendations one finds by so-called experts in Youtube videos).

First thing I did was change the prefs to cancel auto-updates.

If I were King, one of the first things I’d do (after banning leaf-blowers) is to declare that no software can be auto—updated by default.

I am old enough to remember when “DOS isn’t done till Lotus won’t run”. Microshaft was the second favorite way to refer to them in the old days after Micro$oft.

I got dragged to a dog and pony show by a MS exec back while I still worked for the state and told him that and you should have seen the steam come out of his collar!

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IngisKahn  Dec 26, 2023 • 11:33:29pm

Then again, blocking auto-updates is how we get viruses, ransomware, bot nets, etc.

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IngisKahn  Dec 26, 2023 • 11:59:08pm

Oof, profiles take forever to load again.

BTW, I just wanted to inform everyone that I’m up to episode 600 of One Piece.

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wrenchwench  Dec 27, 2023 • 12:19:14am

re: #101 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your next Wordle is outgoing and friendly.

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If it was a poker hand, it would be cheating.

Wild cards can be enabled to do it within the rules.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2023 • 12:24:13am

I posted the entire concert last night, but if anyone didn’t see it, here is one of the pieces performed at the Dec concert in Vilnius, which the Bel Canto Choir uploaded yesterday:

Jealous (Labrinth, Owen Ladd) – Justinas & Zero8



..

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2023 • 12:29:46am

More choral music:

In Paradisium // Danish National Vocal Ensemble (Live)


…

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wrenchwench  Dec 27, 2023 • 12:32:11am

This was on the Muzak in the store tonight.

Mercury Blues

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 27, 2023 • 2:28:18am

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sagehen  Dec 27, 2023 • 2:48:19am

re: #110 Patricia Kayden

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the violent mob wasn’t just to seize the capitol and take over Congress.

He intended a decapitation strike. The VP, Speaker, and Senate president were all present at the time. The next 3 in the line of succession. He wanted them all dead.

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TarHellion  Dec 27, 2023 • 2:53:22am

Made it through the flu and the holidays, then return to action with a beagle.

Got to head into the office today to prep semi-annual grant reports. Should be quiet, since every other government agency is closed today and a lot of co-workers will be taking vacation or work-at-home time. Cheers to all!

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Nojay UK  Dec 27, 2023 • 3:17:07am

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Would anyone weep if our gigantic comments database table was suddenly reset to zero?

” I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain… Time to die.”

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 27, 2023 • 3:17:33am

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 27, 2023 • 3:19:40am

re: #115 Patricia Kayden

That’s like Darth Vader saying, “You know, I think this Palpatine fella might be kind of a jerk.”

Back later - got some real world stuff to do.

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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 3:28:49am

bsky.app

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 27, 2023 • 3:45:35am

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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 3:47:28am

Putting the Laundry Away free 3 minute sample from Andy Prieboy:
andyprieboy.com
you might recall him from Wall of Voodoo.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 27, 2023 • 4:08:10am

Some soggy hump day drive time music featuring Jelly Roll. No news on his half-brother Tootsie.

Jessie Murph, Jelly Roll - Wild Ones (Official Video)

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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 4:23:17am

bsky.app

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2023 • 4:32:17am

re: #121 Randall Gross

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Effective resistance requires lots of things, and the most important of them is trust. That’s why Bannon and his ilk have made it their goal to destroy trust in institutions, communities, and each other. If SHTF ever happens, don’t expect to survive it.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Dec 27, 2023 • 4:35:04am

Well, that was an ugly all green.
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 27, 2023 • 4:35:49am

re: #60 Mattand

This was our Xmas Eve walk around downtown Philly. Over 4.5 miles.

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That’s a good approximation of the loop I walked now and then when I lived there in Center City. I tended to favor going the other way to walk along the Schuylkill and into Fairmount Park but down into Old Town was a nice break from that. Looks of interesting architecture and quirky stuff to see along the streets. I also like the little parks tucked in here and there.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 27, 2023 • 4:48:34am

Find the kitty

Hops in the open
Window Kitty (Dizzy)
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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:00:38am

I haz shoes now

Dunny
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Rightwingconspirator  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:12:14am

Good Morning. First-world problems.

Are PC upgrades not an adventure? The wife bought me a nice 34” 4k monitor for my slightly aged computer. First thing is I need a new video card of course. But it takes so much wattage I gotta get a bigger power supply. So much heat I need a new water cooling system. The card is so large I need a new case for the PC.

LOL over a grand to make the $600 monitor work….

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Rightwingconspirator  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:17:38am

re: #126 Shropshire Slasher

That kitty looks a lot like our Jenner.

Please sir, may I have moar tuna?
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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:28:15am

re: #127 Rightwingconspirator

Good Morning. First-world problems.

Are PC upgrades not an adventure? The wife bought me a nice 34” 4k monitor for my slightly aged computer. First thing is I need a new video card of course. But it takes so much wattage I gotta get a bigger power supply. So much heat I need a new water cooling system. The card is so large I need a new case for the PC.

LOL over a grand to make the $600 monitor work….

Tell me about it, we modernized the computers, but discovered that we also need new monitors…

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:31:21am

Portly Dunny has a story behind him. Last year he jumped, thrown, grabbed by falcon and fell into the Hudson river off of the Dunn Memorial Bridge. I had a contractor, DA Collins, working on a barge under the bridge. The contractor was on high alert because we were working under a Peregrine Falcon’s nesting box. An ironworker heard a splash and they though a falcon fledgling fell in. Willy grabbed a net and scooped out a very wet Dunny Collins. Photos behind privacy tags because some may find it upsetting.

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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:31:26am

Food for thought when you watch the media discuss the war with Palestinians — from “The Battleground” a media org in the EU:

Do you condemn?
The “Do You Condemn?” Trick: Forcing Palestinians to Legitimate the War in Gaza.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:32:58am

re: #127 Rightwingconspirator

Good Morning. First-world problems.

Are PC upgrades not an adventure? The wife bought me a nice 34” 4k monitor for my slightly aged computer. First thing is I need a new video card of course. But it takes so much wattage I gotta get a bigger power supply. So much heat I need a new water cooling system. The card is so large I need a new case for the PC.

LOL over a grand to make the $600 monitor work….

I think your wife is politely telling you to go and buy a top of the line Alienware desktop computer.

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Dizzy  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:39:46am
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Patricia Kayden  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:41:47am

re: #131 Randall Gross

“Violence breeds counter-violence, and the armed resistance in Gaza — which includes not only Islamists like Hamas but also the Marxist-Leninist PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) — acts in response to the violence of the occupation.”
Sorry but nothing justifies what happened on October 7th.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:42:50am

re: #96 goddamnedfrank

I didn’t actually see Kanye’s Hebrew note before but of course the text is left justified LOL!

He shoud deliver a Bar Mitzvah speech in Klingon

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:47:39am
Growth in the trading of emissions credits has hit a snag, with the effectiveness of carbon offset projects, such as forest conservation, being called into question and demand for carbon offsets plunging.

As airlines and other major buyers of emissions credits have begun to shun the market, carbon credit futures have fallen 90% from their peak, making it difficult for the financial instrument to play a major role in global decarbonization.

In October, Shell CEO Wael Sawan caused a stir when he said the oil major had given up a plan to spend $100 million a year on carbon offsets. The British company used to buy carbon credits in private, voluntary markets to offset greenhouse gas emissions generated from its production and transportation of liquefied natural gas before selling the fuel to environment-conscious customers. It had planned to purchase credits worth 120 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent annually through 2030.

There are two types of emissions trading, one led by public entities like the European Union and the other involving credits issued by private project developers. If a business has a cap imposed on it by a public authority, it is required to buy an allowance from legally mandated programs to offset emissions in excess of the ceiling. Companies that have set voluntary emissions reduction targets use private credits to meet their goals.

asia.nikkei.com

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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:53:11am

re: #134 Patricia Kayden

“Violence breeds counter-violence, and the armed resistance in Gaza — which includes not only Islamists like Hamas but also the Marxist-Leninist PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) — acts in response to the violence of the occupation.”
Sorry but nothing justifies what happened on October 7th.

I didn’t say it did.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:54:11am
Lee Sun-kyun, a popular South Korean actor best known for his role in the Oscar-winning movie “Parasite,” was found dead in a car in Seoul on Wednesday, authorities said, after weeks of an intense police investigation into his alleged drug use.

Police and emergency officers initially found Lee in what they believed was an unconscious state in the car parked on a street in northern Seoul. Emergency officers later confirmed he was dead, according to Seoul’s Seongbuk police station.

apnews.com

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:58:37am

re: #137 Randall Gross

The article implied that it did in that quoted paragraph.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:58:53am

Newsflash

The New York Times on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, the company behind popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, accusing the pair of infringing copyright and abusing the newspaper’s intellectual property.

cnbc.com

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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 5:59:39am

re: #137 Randall Gross

I didn’t say it did.

But unjustified violence does breed unjustified violence so why must you condemn one before speaking about the other? That’s what the article is about. Aren’t both peoples caught in this unholy human meatgrinder of hate?

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darthstar  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:02:43am

re: #140 Shropshire Slasher

Newsflash

cnbc.com

Nobody plagiarizes the plagiarizers and gets away with it!

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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:19:28am

I hope this opinion piece is right, but it’s a long way to election day, so I am still recommending you donate today.

Biden’s 2024 chances are much stronger than people realize

secure.actblue.com

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jeffreyw  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:21:26am

Toby

Good morning!

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:23:26am

re: #141 Randall Gross

So did America’s military exertions in the Middle East justify 9/11? Nope. We can condemn the rightwing government in Israel without justifying October 6th.

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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:26:46am

re: #145 Patricia Kayden

So did America’s military exertions in the Middle East justify 9/11? Nope. We can condemn the rightwing government in Israel without justifying October 6th.

But why must Palestinians condemn Hamas before talking about the current JDAMS dropping in Gaza, can you explain that please? I see that approach from Journalists almost every day.

It’s an article criticizing media’s current approach to Palestinian voices.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:29:29am

Michigan Supreme Court keeps Trump on the ballot.

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austin_blue  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:31:57am

re: #87 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It has been a long-time soap-box of mine, that people expecting exponential returns on investments is an exercise in delusion, if we expect it to go on forever.

The problem is that exponential returns lead to a few people owning everything.

Which reminds me of a Robert Earl Keen tune:

The Road Goes On Forever

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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:39:42am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:53:33am

re: #149 Randall Gross

“woke” is a hollow term that covers “everything I dislike about the left”

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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:54:32am

Did you know that some of the best fudge in the world is packed in Uranus?

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:57:39am

The closest I get to Christmas photos … 😎

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:58:01am

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:58:23am

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:58:38am

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:58:50am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:58:54am

re: #152 William Lewis

very pe(n)dantic!

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:59:14am

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:59:35am

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 27, 2023 • 6:59:39am

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:00:44am

Then this morning, the moon sets

and turn around to see the sun starting to rise…

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:03:36am

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darthstar  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:04:20am

re: #151 Randall Gross

Did you know that some of the best fudge in the world is packed in Uranus?

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Yours looks like Santa Clause…if it had been Jesus you could make a fortune charging people to come pray in front of it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:04:35am

re: #162 Patricia Kayden

They have a ceertain point: if DJT had stayed out of politics, his crimes would most likely have gone unpunished.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:05:03am

re: #163 darthstar

Yours looks like Santa Clause…if it had been Jesus you could make a fortune charging people to come pray in front of it.

No, they would never pray in front of a dark-skinned Jesus

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:07:50am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:09:25am

re: #166 Patricia Kayden

unless that cat has just pissed in your banjo case and the acidic urine has popped your strings and broken the banjo head…

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darthstar  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:10:28am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:11:38am

re: #168 darthstar

Delaware yes. New Jersey yes. PA no. :(

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:15:19am

I received a Christmas gift that I didn’t think I would need, until now, a candle warmer! Take your hard to light/used up scented candles and leave them on your candle warmer. Wham bam thank you ma’am lovely scents! Definitely takes the crusty curmudgeon smell out of my office!

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:17:08am

A cheerful birbie.

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BeachDem  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:32:17am

Iowans seem very excited to hear Nikki spew her bullshit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:33:00am

re: #169 PhillyPretzel ✅

Delaware yes. New Jersey yes. PA no. :(

Bad news for Biden if he cannot get a wage raise for his home state!!!

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:35:02am

re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

lol. Delaware is Joe’s home state.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:37:06am

re: #174 PhillyPretzel ✅

lol. Delaware is Joe’s home state.

So he left his home state in protest over a minimum wage raise?

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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:39:36am

bsky.app

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steve_davis  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:48:30am

re: #15 Charles Johnson

Bluesky now supports embedded shit from YouTube, Twitch, Soundcloud, Spotify, and maybe others.

So what is twitch.tv about? Is this a gamer thing, because my god the site is hideous. How do you find something to watch at Twitch? And not want to retch?

well, you can watch hikaru nakamura playing impromptu chess against all comers, or sometimes he’ll do commentary on other super-gm games that are going on. So there are people worth watching on it, but yeah, no idea how to actually figure out what content is where, unless I’m somewhere and it has a link.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 27, 2023 • 7:51:59am

re: #101 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

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(((Archangel1)))  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:00:42am
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Dangerman  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:01:05am

re: #147 Joe Bacon ✅

Michigan Supreme Court keeps Trump on the ballot.

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If the Rs want to run a guy in their primary who could get booted later in the process because he’s ineligible for the office, I’m all for it

Eta: the Colorado case is different because the law there addresses the primary specifically

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:02:13am

“The Smothers Brothers Show” and “Laugh-In” were my favorite shows of the late 1960’s.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:06:16am

re: #179 (((Archangel1)))

She’s right…he’s her nominee. Oh well.

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wrenchwench  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:06:48am

re: #181 Vicious Babushka

“The Smothers Brothers Show” and “Laugh-In” were my favorite shows of the late 1960’s.

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I saw the Smothers Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl, when I was too young to know what was going on. (7?)

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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:07:12am

re: #181 Vicious Babushka

I loved the Smothers brothers.

My eldest son still does yo.

Youtube Video

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darthstar  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:08:09am

They’re going to need a few more rolls of Flex Seal tape to fix that boat.

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:09:03am

re: #181 Vicious Babushka

Same here. Although I will admit I liked Laugh-in a lot.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:12:47am

re: #181 Vicious Babushka

“The Smothers Brothers Show” and “Laugh-In” were my favorite shows of the late 1960’s.

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Reverend Spike in Serial.
en.wikipedia.org

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:17:20am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:18:21am

re: #181 Vicious Babushka

“The Smothers Brothers Show” and “Laugh-In” were my favorite shows of the late 1960’s.

Yes, they did a lot to shape my budding sense of music, humor and politics.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:20:33am

re: #189 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, they did a lot to shape my budding sense of music, humor and politics.

Boosted the careers of several greats—David Steinberg, Leigh French, Pat Paulsen, Mason Williams.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:20:58am

re: #181 Vicious Babushka

“The Smothers Brothers Show” and “Laugh-In” were my favorite shows of the late 1960’s.

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Distant second to Star Trek, but yeah.

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Randall Gross  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:22:33am

re: #188 Vicious Babushka

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:24:46am

re: #188 Vicious Babushka

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:26:27am

re: #179 (((Archangel1)))

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She is stupid enough to call the prosecution of a hardcore criminal “persecution.”
She’s part of the subculture that rejects reality just like the Trumpanzees are.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:32:39am

re: #184 Randall Gross

I loved the Smothers brothers.

My eldest son still does yo.

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One of my favorite bits of theirs. Dad had this album.

The Fox

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:34:43am

re: #194 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

She is stupid enough to call the prosecution of a hardcore criminal “persecution.”
She’s part of the subculture that rejects reality just like the Trumpanzees are.

That also showed where here sympathies lie…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:40:01am

Brexit benefits, folks: free from the constraints of the Godless metric system!!!

Pint-sized bottles of wine to be sold after Brexit review

The rules were initially copied over after Brexit, but Boris Johnson’s government subsequently announced they would be reviewed as part of a plans to “capitalise on the benefits of Brexit”.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:44:36am

re: #101 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

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Belafon  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:46:45am

re: #168 darthstar

Texas: None of these states would be able to raise their minimum wage if Texas didn’t keep theirs at the bottom.

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Egregious Philbin  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:50:43am

re: #190 Decatur Deb

Steve Martin, Bob Einstein, John Hartford, Murray Langston, Carl Gottlieb…

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wrenchwench  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:53:19am

re: #200 Belafon

Texas: None of these states would be able to raise their minimum wage if Texas didn’t keep theirs at the bottom.

Oregon doesn’t appear on the list because they raised minimum wage every year since 2016, and now it’s indexed to the Consumer Price Index .

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cat-tikvah  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:54:25am

re: #169 PhillyPretzel ✅

Delaware yes. New Jersey yes. PA no. :(

PA, languishing at $7.25/hour…..
Shameful

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:57:20am

re: #203 cat-tikvah

PA, languishing at $7.25/hour…..
Shameful

Thanks to the Republican lock on the State Senate.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 27, 2023 • 8:58:25am

re: #203 cat-tikvah

I know :(

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nines09  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:05:27am

New Jersey, New York legalized recreational pot. Pennsylvania now watches all that money cross the bridges.
No shortage of stupid in Pennsyltucky.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:07:08am

re: #206 nines09

New Jersey, New York legalized recreational pot. Pennsylvania now watches all that money cross the bridges.
No shortage of stupid in Pennsyltucky.

But they done got a lot of Jay-Zuss in the bright red parts of the state.

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austin_blue  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:15:36am

re: #190 Decatur Deb

Boosted the careers of several greats—David Steinberg, Leigh French, Pat Paulsen, Mason Williams.

And, they hired a young writer, juggler, magician, and musician named Steve Martin.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:21:05am

re: #112 sagehen

the violent mob wasn’t just to seize the capitol and take over Congress.

He intended a decapitation strike. The VP, Speaker, and Senate president were all present at the time. The next 3 in the line of succession. He wanted them all dead.

Maybe I’m being naive here but I just don’t think that was his intention. His only focus was on getting re-elected and delaying the vote, throwing the determination into the House; deaths of legislators were not on his playlist.

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darthstar  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:21:38am

re: #200 Belafon

Texas: None of these states would be able to raise their minimum wage if Texas didn’t keep theirs at the bottom.

Texas will sue neighboring states for taking their employees.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:27:20am

re: #115 Patricia Kayden

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Darth knows things, things he learned from sources he absolutely cannot reveal. My guess would be heads of state or second level operators in the Gulf or the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics. He is unusually well connected in the latter, a region that normally receives little attention from American leaders. It is very unlikely to be something domestic, since many others are as well connected in that arena and sources could almost certainly be revealed.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:38:06am
Multiple Pizza Hut franchises in California are planning to lay off delivery drivers as the restaurant chain braces for an increase in the minimum wage for fast food workers next year.

Several Pizza Hut operators filed notices to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act saying they were discontinuing their delivery services.

“PacPizza, LLC, operating as Pizza Hut, has made a business decision to eliminate first-party delivery services and, as a result, the elimination of all delivery driver positions,” a federal WARN Act notice filed by the fast-food operator with the state’s Employment Development Department said, Business Insider reported.

Another operator, Southern California Pizza Co. also announced layoffs of around 841 drivers across the state.

nypost.com

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:41:21am

Late in the morning for a drive time song but what the hell, it’s a hell of a song…

“You should see my scars… “

Garbage - Bleed Like Me

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:41:40am

re: #100 goddamnedfrank

Arcane on Netflix is surprisingly very good.

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The artistry in the animation, the way they play with styles, frame rates, cadence, interstitials all within single scenes reminds me a lot of the Spiderverse movies. This Ekko vs Jinx fight is a great example, if you’re not giving this show a try you’re missing out:

Arcane | Ekko vs. Jinx

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:41:47am

re: #211 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Darth knows things, things he learned from sources he absolutely cannot reveal. My guess would be heads of state or second level operators in the Gulf or the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics. He is unusually well connected in the latter, a region that normally receives little attention from American leaders. It is very unlikely to be something domestic, since many others are as well connected in that arena and sources could almost certainly be revealed.

That’s what I always believed. The Cheney family objections to Trump were based exclusively on his FP and Dick knows things. Unfortunately if he fails to reveal any of this, then our nation may be doomed.

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darthstar  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:42:36am

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:44:05am

re: #209 Hecuba’s daughter

Maybe I’m being naive here but I just don’t think that was his intention. His only focus was on getting re-elected and delaying the vote, throwing the determination into the House; deaths of legislators were not on his playlist.

He invited many violent people and told them it was the fight of their life. His preference may not have been a violent solution to his problems, but he was ready to go there (or so he thought).

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:55:43am

re: #209 Hecuba’s daughter

Maybe I’m being naive here but I just don’t think that was his intention. His only focus was on getting re-elected and delaying the vote, throwing the determination into the House; deaths of legislators were not on his playlist.

As long as it gets him what he wants he does not care what it costs other people.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:56:06am
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Dangerman  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:56:48am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:58:09am

re: #212 Shropshire Slasher

One Pizza Hut delivery driver told Business Insider that he was offered a $400 severance if he stuck around through his February 5 layoff date.

The money they are giving us as severance pay is a slap on the face,” he told Insider. “It comes to $3 a month for nine-plus years of service.”

FOX Business has reached out to the Pizza Hut operators, but has not yet heard back.

The sooner you realize your employer doesn’t really give a shit about you, the better off you’ll be.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:58:25am

re: #218 William Lewis

As long as it gets him what he wants he does not care what it costs other people.

I think the plans to murder Pence, Pelosi, et al were more on the minds of the rioters than they were Trump.

Had anything like that happened, however, Trump would (of course) be on the hook for it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:59:00am

re: #220 Dangerman

Narrator: False. They will not actually leave us alone.

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wrenchwench  Dec 27, 2023 • 9:59:15am

re: #220 Dangerman

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Dangerman  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:01:00am

re: #219 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

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The democracy is going to have to settle for a proxy conviction.
Ie other charges

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sagehen  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:03:11am

re: #212 Shropshire Slasher

nypost.com

Who the fuck would buy a Pizza Hut pizza if they can’t get it delivered?!? That’s the one and only appeal of that calls-itself-a-pizza.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:03:35am

re: #176 Randall Gross

On that one, Polish President Duda got outplayed.

The new Polish government has sent Polish state-owned media into liquidation.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:03:37am

re: #213 William Lewis

Late in the morning for a drive time song but what the hell, it’s a hell of a song…

“You should see my scars… “

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Video

Memories of my dear departed buddy Bartcop and how he loved Shirley…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:03:54am

re: #226 sagehen

Who the fuck would buy a Pizza Hut pizza if they can’t get it delivered?!? That’s the one and only appeal of that calls-itself-a-pizza.

Delivery will be handed by Uber Eats, Doordash and Grubhub.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:04:35am

re: #226 sagehen

Who the fuck would buy a Pizza Hut pizza if they can’t get it delivered?!? That’s the one and only appeal of that calls-itself-a-pizza.

DoorDash, Grubhub, Postmates have all stepped in to do their delivery.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:05:10am

re: #206 nines09

New Jersey, New York legalized recreational pot. Pennsylvania now watches all that money cross the bridges.
No shortage of stupid in Pennsyltucky.

As did Ohio this last election.

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Dangerman  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:05:14am

re: #229 Eclectic Cyborg

Delivery will be handed by Uber Eats, Doordash and Grubhub.

So the cost to the consumer will be the same or higher than just paying drivers a fair wage

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:08:34am

re: #226 sagehen

Who the fuck would buy a Pizza Hut pizza if they can’t get it delivered?!? That’s the one and only appeal of that calls-itself-a-pizza.

Uber Eats to the Rescue!!!

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:08:50am

re: #232 Dangerman

So the cost to the consumer will be the same or higher than just paying drivers a fair wage

They don’t care about the cost to the consumer — only their bottom line.

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danarchy  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:09:39am

re: #226 sagehen

Who the fuck would buy a Pizza Hut pizza if they can’t get it delivered?!? That’s the one and only appeal of that calls-itself-a-pizza.

You’ll still be able to have it delivered, you’ll just have to pay the door dash/GrubHub/Uber eats premium.

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nines09  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:10:50am

And casino gambling outside of Vegas and AC happened because Canada legalized casino gambling. Then they put a casino at literally every border crossing.
Didn’t take long for the realization millions of $$$ were leaving never coming back.
When Canada legalized cannabis, New York and Michigan took note.
And Pa Medical MJ law does not allow the smoking of flower, only the vaporizing of it.
If you get caught, you lose your MJ card.
And you have to hide your Medical card so a cop can’t see it.
Because you will get fucked.
Mine is buried in my wallet.
I also still have my CDL, but this will be the last of it.
I’ve renewed it because I wanted an out if shit went south.
If I get back in a Bunky Big Rig, it’s a hostage situation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:12:41am

re: #220 Dangerman

The Chryon: “NY Bill would force Chick-Fil-A’s to open Sundays”

I recall seeing a Chick-Fil-A at Atlanta Airport and wondering if they were open Sundays, as most concessions for services at public places like airports, highway rest stops or shopping malls call for them to be open between certain set hours.

The NY bill would require all concessions at state highway rest stops to be open on Sundays (when lots of people travel)

That of course applies to all shops, not just the performatively pious Christian ones.

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:13:02am

re: #228 Joe Bacon ✅

Memories of my dear departed buddy Bartcop and how he loved Shirley…

Saw them in Madison WI on the first show of that tour. Damn that was a hell of a show. I remember I came back with drinks and my ex told me how she got hit on my this dude. She gently declined. No prob. Hell, I’ve never been the kind to worry about it - as long as she got home safe, have fun. That said, a few moments later though, a couple of teens came up asking where their dad was. She was like “Who?” “The guy who was talking to you!” “Oh, that way.” “Thanks!”

Bleed like me, indeed 😈

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:14:23am

re: #176 Randall Gross

Here’s some more on the situation in Poland:

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s cabinet placed public television and radio under liquidation after the president vetoed legislation providing subsidies to the state-run media amid a political standoff over the broadcasters.

Culture Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz said on Wednesday that Telewizja Polska SA, Polskie Radio SA and news agency Polska Agencja Prasowa SA have been disbanded after a “suspension in financing” due to President Andrzej Duda’s veto. The liquidation status will help to efficiently restructure public media and avoid layoffs amid a lack of public funding, the ministry said.

Earlier, Tusk said he was willing to work with Duda and members of the opposition Law & Justice party in the future to create a “more balanced public media” landscape and a stable funding system replacing the current finance ministry subsidies. His cabinet’s decision last week to reshuffle the management ranks of public broadcasters fueled sit-in protests by Law & Justice officials, who lost their governing majority in an October election.

The premier, whose pro-European coalition took office two weeks ago, expressed disappointment in Duda’s decision to veto a government spending plan that included public media subsidies. The move put on display the willingness of the head of state to confront Tusk over legislation, signaling that the prime minister will struggle to undertake bigger projects.

“My expectations and hopes regarding the president’s actions have diminished a lot recently,” Tusk told reporters in Warsaw on Wednesday. Law & Justice has resisted because “for the last eight years they got used to treating public media as their own property,” he said.

yahoo.com

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danarchy  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:17:16am

re: #236 nines09

And casino gambling outside of Vegas and AC happened because Canada legalized casino gambling.

I thought it had more to do with the proliferation of casinos run by Indian tribes. They were popping up in just about every state anyway so the states were like if we gotta deal with the problems we may as well get the revenue too.

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nines09  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:18:45am

re: #240 danarchy

Yes. That had an enormous impact along with Canada.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:24:26am

re: #220 Dangerman

😂 Lindsay has jokes. Ask Ms. Cox about the conservative penchant for not minding their own business. Ask Draq Queens and transgender people. Ask librarians.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:26:58am

J6 was peaceful. Just like the Alamo was.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:29:43am

re: #212 Shropshire Slasher

Why not raise the price of pizzas to cover drivers’ wages? This is so cold.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:31:21am

re: #243 GlutenFreeJesus

J6 was peaceful. Just like the Alamo was.

Remember when Santa Ana came and paraded in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:33:04am

re: #244 Patricia Kayden

This what happens when one only looks at the bottom line not the entire picture.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:37:06am

re: #244 Patricia Kayden

Why not raise the price of pizzas to cover drivers’ wages? This is so cold.

That is actually the model that Doordash etc work on, in addition to delivery fees.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:37:57am

re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

unless that cat has just pissed in your banjo case and the acidic urine has popped your strings and broken the banjo head…

Why was the banjo case lying around so carelessly? The cat is innocent.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:39:04am

re: #247 BlueSpotinAL ✅

That is actually the model that Doordash etc work on, in addition to delivery fees.

Depending on the local laws, the -dash drivers might be “independent contractors”, not getting MW.

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:41:34am

re: #240 danarchy

I thought it had more to do with the proliferation of casinos run by Indian tribes. They were popping up in just about every state anyway so the states were like if we gotta deal with the problems we may as well get the revenue too.

Yup, once the tribes were able to have gaming it broke the mob’s monopoly on table games and, even better, it funneled money from some of the most racist motherfuckers I’ve ever seen into the pockets of the people that have been historically rat-fucked the worst in America.

Growing up my parents were employed by the University as staff - not teachers: my dad was a janitor pushing a broom & mom was a librarian. Behind the scenes. My beloved GF’s mom was a prof and dad was in admissions so I had the ability to see all sides of the school; that really did inform my socialism.

Back to the Native Americans, my father met some of the young students from the Rez up at Hayward and became friends with them. We’d go up to hang with them in the early 70s. My alcoholic single grandmother with her 5 teen children lived in a shack (literally). Yet it was nice compare to some of the places I saw up there. The kind of place they really swept a dirt floor in midwinter. (I might add that the Hayward Rez was actually the nicest one in Wisconsin. The rest went from bad to worse. The ones in South Dakota are, literally hell on earth.) These are all things I only understood years later. They did the best they could and despite everything that the government and BIA threw at them they put their children trough higher education to give them a better life. I pray they have had that.

Once gaming became legal the tribe started a trust. All that money went into a big pot. They invested it. Built infrastructure. Schools. Houses. If it were to go away tomorrow they would still have decades of money from the foolish white-bread fuckers who wasted their money on blackjack and slots for years. And that’s not even mentioning all the money they get from selling “illegal” fireworks and tobacco to the whites. And I just say fuck yes.

You ignorant fascist bastards, you’re already paying reparations but you are too fucking stupid to realize it! LOL!

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:44:31am

re: #247 BlueSpotinAL ✅

That is actually the model that Doordash etc work on, in addition to delivery fees.

But they screw their workers in numerous ways as well, but first and foremost by classifying them as independent contractors.

And these jobs are dangerous, statistically far more dangerous than being a cop.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:45:49am

RIP

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gwangung  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:48:05am

re: #250 William Lewis

Hm. Not much into gambling. Maybe I should change my tune to support the tribes….

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:49:12am

re: #219 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

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Charlie was a coup plotter. That frothing dweeb bused fascists to DC.

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:55:08am

re: #253 gwangung

Hm. Not much into gambling. Maybe I should change my tune to support the tribes….

I don’t gamble either. But when I’m up there, I shop on the Rez, buy gas on the Rez, etc. Every penny helps them. I remember some native kids I played with when I was gah 8? 10? I hope they have had a good life. I played with the game life with it set on “EASY” mode as a white male. My son is on “Medium” (Asian but still male) and I still worry for him. Native? Hard & Harder…

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2023 • 10:56:20am

re: #251 goddamnedfrank

But they screw their workers in numerous ways as well, but first and foremost by classifying them as independent contractors.

And these jobs are dangerous, statistically far more dangerous than being a cop.

Pizza delivery overall is far more dangerous than being a PIG.


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