A Tour De Force From Laura Marling: “Strange” (fka “The Simple Life”) - Guild Guitars Session
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Look who is demanding $$$$ from his marks!
Rudy Giuliani demands cash from subscribers after filing for bankruptcy
Fresh off filing for bankruptcy, Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani kicked off the new year by demanding greenbacks from his backers.
Giuliani made a plea to his fan base to pay him a tenspot Monday when he launched a new show “America’s Mayor Confidential,” Newsweek was first to report.
“Don’t forget to subscribe,” Giuliani said on his other show “America’s Mayor Live.” He then added, “and ten bucks.”
Giuliani also spread the word directly on X, but the message appears not to have gone according to plan.
“Do yourself and me a big favor and join our premier program America’s Mayor Confidential so we become a close knit team for 2024,” according to the Giuliani wrote. “Go to @RudyWGiuliani on X and subscribe for $10 per month so we can be an army by mid-next year.”
Replied CandyCan3-1, “Rudy, it iS showing “account suspended.” 🤣
Monday’s show features a bespectacled Giuliani sitting behind a microphone discussing previous GOP debate highlights, propping up Trump and alleging President Joe Biden corruption.
“Iran’s going to have to decide if they’re going to make their big move before Mr. Appeasement is out of office,” he said during the Jan. 1 show.
The figure once lauded as “America’s Mayor” for his about-face response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks is reporting debts of up to $500 million on assets that total no more than $10 million.
This is the part where Donald lies about calling out the guard, then claims all the evidence of that has been destroyed by the 1/6 committee. Only problem is that he never specifically asked for this evidence in any motion to compel. He can lie to the public, but not the court https://t.co/3IdkXIqHSl
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) January 2, 2024
I’m very pro-1st Amendment, but this should be a felony. pic.twitter.com/8Dr73c0jwt
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 1, 2024
re: #4 No Malarkey!
Total album sales:
Vanilla Ice - Approx. 15 million
Green Day - 75 million+
Mr. Collins:
The whole “they should just play music” shit with conservatives has always been ridiculous. Remember when Paul Ryan said he liked to listen to Rage Against The Machine while working out? Proof positive he didn’t listen to a damn word Zack de la Rocha rapped in those songs as they went against everything he stood for politically. Just shameless hucksters through and through going back i dunno, centuries?
Lots of music is political, but wasn’t that the point of punk?
Amazing stuff I’ve seen from the MAGA mouth breathers on Xitter. “Why did Green Day make American Idiot political? We just want to escape from that on New Year’s Eve.”
Some of the most un-self-aware mindless fucking dipshits that are walking this planet.
They are a threat to the species, these MAGA assholes.
Most of the 60s and 70s was political protest music
(except Neil sedaka and donny osmond)
“We’re not Nazis! We’re Swiss!”
“Yo-dol-eh-ee-hoo!”
Mark Cuban Suggests Biden Take a Page From Trump’s ‘Playbook’
“I wish Biden would come out and say he wants Trump on the ballot. The 14th doesn’t apply. Then thanks him for the playbook describing how to never leave office and the appreciation of knowing he can’t be charged, no matter what he does,” Cuban wrote Sunday on X, formerly Twitter.
Cuban added: “And ends it with ‘My Fellow Americans, I’m not ever going to leave the White House and there is nothing you can do to me.’ Which would confirm exactly why SCOTUS will keep Trump off the ballots and why Trump will never get immunity.”
never happen. Not even in the West Wing.
re: #14 teleskiguy
I heard it! I LOL’d like nobody’s business. Wow.
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DAMN! Idiots firing off guns and shooting fireworks again…
re: #17 Vicious Babushka
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re: #16 silverdolphin
Mark Cuban Suggests Biden Take a Page From Trump’s ‘Playbook’
never happen. Not even in the West Wing.
It won’t because the media would turn it into “Biden says he’s never going to leave office.” No mention that it’s purely meant to make a point, and that it’s exactly what the previous guy wants.
re: #18 Joe Bacon ✅
DAMN! Idiots firing off guns and shooting fireworks again…
Here, too. But they finally stopped about 20 mins ago.
re: #17 Vicious Babushka
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Skiing is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
re: #24 teleskiguy
Skiing is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
< Raises eyebrow ala Spock > I have decided that along with what ever other shooting I do, with whatever other cameras and lenses, I use, I am going to try to take at least one photo a day this year with my Leica M 240 using my Voigtlander 50/1.5 Nokton. It’s a good quality versatile lens and I’m more interested in the discipline of forcing myself to shoot daily. I expect to continue to use all the other cameras and so forth but to use that one as a “no excuses” daily driver.
That is far more fun and far less painful.
DeSantis Pee Wee I’m dead⚰️💀🥀🪦⚱️
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/OoliDeAVtn— Resist Republicans in Florida (@FLWillRegret22) January 2, 2024
NJ’s “Seinfeld Bill” On Telemarketing Goes Into Effect https://t.co/OElDVnTAjx pic.twitter.com/1ySGxnaDqJ
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) January 1, 2024
Now You Can Get Their Home Numbers, Too. NJ ‘Seinfeld Bill’ Becomes Law
It was a 15-second interaction Jerry had during a season 4 episode of “Seinfeld” that inspired a New Jersey proposal to limit telemarketers. And now the so-called “Seinfeld Bill” has become law.
Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, signed the legislation Monday. It requires telemarketers to, within 30 seconds of the call, identify themselves by name and provide the name and number of the person on whose behalf it is being made. They also have to declare the purpose of that call within that initial half-minute.
It also mandates that telemarketers display their mailing address on any website they own and operate, as well as the address of any business they represent on calls.
And for those frustrated by the timing of said calls, there’s good news. Unsolicited telemarketing calls are banned between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m., local time, at the customer’s location, under the bill.
re: #27 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Be nice if I believed any of that info would be accurate.
Can Trump Save Democracy from Itself?
From the mainstream American Conservative. Everything being done against Trump (“to turn populist uprisings like Trump’s into a matter for the criminal justice system, rather than political contestation”) is piurely political, trying to prevent the will of the people from being felt. See, removing a fascist from the ballot is the greatest anti-democratic thing ever. The first impeachment was “based on flimsy allegations about a phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president.” Talk about misconstruing the facts.
He sees this as a Deep State conspiracy not as a populist uprising of its own.
And this is why even moderate Republicans will vote for Trump. It is a cult.
re: #30 silverdolphin
It’s a magazine that only exists as a pretense, to somehow posture their atavism as “educated”.
Since I’m shopping for a computer I read quite a number of websites and forums, and watch YouTube videos by “tech” reviewers.
And, showing my age here, it seems there are a lot of whiny brats who love to hate on certain things.
Lots of Apple haters. It’s an odd phenomenon but it is what 2023 and now 2024 brings us.
Linux has collected a weird following. Seem like so-called “libertarian” nuts.
Many “tech” (how I hate that term) reviewers don’t really know how things work or how they are made. They are just professional shoppers and low-rung marketers, who are willing to do a job for major corporations for peanuts.
Lots of negative reviews for certain kinds of hardware, especially monitors. I can understand this, as the typical monitor is really not made to be a statement of design or construction.
“Gamers”, as they call themselves, are really insulating themselves from reality, or so it seems to me. They think 120Hz refresh rate is all that matters. I think there is something going horribly wrong with our society if young people get histrionic over 60Hz refresh rates on monitors. Call me a fuddy-duddy if you will.
Looking at how people type in their videos, has anyone under 40 y.o. learned to type properly?
No, I don’t want a keyboard that glows in rainbow colors that are constantly changing.
Rare to find people discussing printers. 30 years ago the big deal was getting smaller and lighter laser printers. Does anyone print stuff out any more? (Note, I haven’t had a working printer in 5 or 6 years, so I guess I should talk…)
Because smartphones are so ubiquitous now I wonder what will happen if something drastic happens and wireless no longer is available.
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Bottom line: not looking forward to spending lots of money just to get a set-up I will enjoy.
Vox’s predictions for 2024 include a 55% probability that Trump will be elected President. I am confident they are wrong; they also predicted Trump would be reelected President in 2020.
Someone in Michigan won the Powerball jackpot.
It wasn’t me. 😭
re: #34 Captain Magic
Someone in Michigan won the Powerball jackpot.
It wasn’t me. 😭
Next time! We can always hope.
I only play now at the end of the month, as I collect my pennies during the month. So I played on Saturday. While I hit all the white balls, max though were two on a line. And three times I picked the right power-ball… but alas not combined with the white-ball hits.
Always close enough to tease me…
This looks like it’s not shaping up to be a good year for Japan…..
Livestream from NHK World regarding the passenger plane on fire at Haneda Airport:
No word yet as to whether or not anyone was on board, was it taxiing, take off or landing, etc.
re: #39 Dr Lizardo
Looks like the aluminum is melting, maybe even burning. Surprised they haven’t put it out, as such a fire will damage the runway/parkway.
Your next Wordle seems to have an even chance of dropping you in a bunker.
This is my fourth birbie in a row. Pointing this out will, naturally, trigger a crash and burn.
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re: #42 IngisKahn
Be sure to view the beginning of the broadcast, it’s insane.
Yeah, I saw that. Insane is an understatement. If indeed there’s be no loss of life, bravo to the flight crew for safely evacuating the passengers. They averted what could have been a tragedy.
And it looks like all 379 on board were safely evacuated.
A Japan Airlines aircraft was engulfed in flames at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Tuesday after a possible collision with a Coast Guard aircraft, with the airline saying that all 379 passengers and crew had been evacuated.
Live footage on public broadcaster NHK showed the aircraft erupt in flames as it skidded down the tarmac and fire crews feverishly tried to extinguish the fire.
The Coast Guard said it was investigating the possibility that one of its aircraft collided with the passenger jet.
A spokesperson at Japan Airlines said the aircraft had departed from Shin-Chitose airport in Hokkaido.
That’s some damned fine work by the crew. Each and every one of them deserve a medal.
re: #42 IngisKahn
Be sure to view the beginning of the broadcast, it’s insane.
Yeah… people sliding down the emergency exit… someone with a flashlight inside pointing the way:
This is where it hit something on the runway, and that something and the plane exterior burst into flames:
Then it looks like it’s skidding on its belly, forcing the exterior aluminum to catch fire:
Those people are very lucky to be alive.
Who knew there were so many possibilities?
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re: #49 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Looks like there was an attempt to control the fire early on, but the retardant couldn’t get inside the fuselage, and once the aluminum started to burn from the inside there was nothing to be done.
Then the whole thing just went up in flames:
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What was the time lapse from when it collided and when it was fully engulfed?
Emperor Xi ain’t gonna like this…
ASML canceled shipments of some of its machines to China at the request of US President Joe Biden’s administration, weeks before export bans on the high-end chipmaking equipment came into effect, people familiar with the matter said.
The Dutch manufacturer had licenses to ship three top-of-the-line deep ultraviolet lithography machines to Chinese firms until January when new Dutch restrictions take full effect. However, US officials reached out to ASML to ask them to immediately halt pre-scheduled shipments of some of the machines to Chinese customers, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the discussions were confidential.
Biden is cracking down on Beijing’s attempts to create its own advanced semiconductor industry, and the US and its allies are blocking access to imported technology.
re: #49 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Looks like there was an attempt to control the fire early on, but the retardant couldn’t get inside the fuselage, and once the aluminum started to burn from the inside there was nothing to be done.
Then the whole thing just went up in flames:
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I don’t think that’s going to buff out. It’s a testament to the safety design of modern aircraft that they got everybody out quickly.
re: #54 Patricia Kayden
Good morning. And off to work I go.
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But that’s impossible. I’m told by Reliable Sources (tm) that only Christian morality can prevent people from being assholes.///
re: #54 Patricia Kayden
Good morning. And off to work I go.
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I have to share that with my son. We had that discussion recently where I tried to explain to him my belief that anyone who did good out of fear of hell or hope of heaven had, at best, seriously misunderstood a certain rabbi.
More likely, it was a far worse case… :(
re: #31 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s a magazine that only exists as a pretense, to somehow posture their atavism as “educated”.
Years ago, that magazine had one good article, “Marxism Of The Right”. It was an AWESOME takedown of libertarianism! It cited many of the points we use today to critique the movement. The article title is descriptive even today, especially today.
Busloads of asylum seekers headed for the Big Apple are thwarting Mayor Eric Adams’ crackdown on arrivals by being dropped off in New Jersey and jumping on a train to reach their “final destination” — turning a family-friendly Garden State suburb into a migrant hub.
re: #32 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
In my opinion tech has replaced religion as the major repository of faith in many people. They don’t really understand it but they ‘know it’s true’.
I watched a video about a game I play where somebody commented that 30 frames per second was a slide show. “Kid,” I thought, “I’ve played games where three frames per second was blazing fast. Probably long before you were born.”
Being a Mac user I get exposed to the Apple hate a lot. It’s always struck me how similar that hate is to that of evangelicals of faiths other than their own.
re: #48 TarHellion
Who knew there were so many possibilities?
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re: #32 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I have bad eyes, and I actually have one of those rainbow keyboards. After having lighted keyboards on laptops, I don’t want any other kind of keyboard! As a disabled person on a budget, I’m obliged to be inventive. You can’t get a lighted, accessible, keyboard at any price unless it’s a gaming keyboard. I’ve looked.
Yes, mine has pretty rainbow colors when I really only needed a white-lit keyboard. I don’t care. It works for me
The Post located Justin Long, a 37-year-old father of three young children whom he lost custody of long ago, in a filthy homeless camp on the outskirts of the neighborhood.“Addicts basically pay me to make sure that drugs go in their system correctly and that they’re getting what they paid for,” Long said, as several users crowded around waiting to pay him for a hit.
“I inject them in their necks. If their necks don’t work, I’ll hit them in their arms,” he said. “It takes about 10 seconds to inject someone when you do it right.”
Long charges $5 per hit and claims he clears between $120 and $130 a day, money he uses to buy food, heroin and cocaine. He said he “always” shoots his own drugs up himself.
“I won’t let anyone else touch me,” he added.
According to Long, whose legs were covered in necrotic wounds caused by “tranq,” he is woken most days at around 4 a.m. by about six people lining up outside his tent who want his services.
“With this ‘tranq’ stuff you go to sleep and you wake up sick so people are wanting that next hit to feel better,” he explained.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Was out and about with the li’l one and the Mrs., and have returned to the regular order of things. Trump continues to bray about all the cases against him, all while the caselaw continues to close in on him and he loses every time he files actions - even when he wins, he’s losing.
Not that Trump cares about facts or such, he’s just inciting his base to violence, and the violence he’s hoping will install him in power, even though he is clearly someone who is disqualified from running for the White House due to being an insurrectionist.
If he wants to get on the ballot, he needs Congress to vote to allow him to be qualified - that’s the plain language of the 14A. That’s part of the Constitution, and there’s no need for a criminal conviction, or an impeachment/removal to be disqualified - the language of the 14A is there and all the fucking originalists/textualists right wing extremists who crave to use the literal language and the wording and context of the original wording of the 14A and all the debate about said enactment and ratification of the 14A would clearly disqualify Trump for any elected office on its face.
Trump doesn’t care, so he’s claiming that he is not bound by anything to do whatever he wants from his time in office, and wants the SCOTUS to ratify this deranged belief.
Here’s the thing - if this ruling favors Trump and he’s above the law, then so too is Biden, and Biden can simply ignore the SCOTUS, imprison and hold the GOP seditious treasonweasels accountable on the face, without any consequences, even as GOPers will always position themselves as IOKIYAR.
Took me forever to get to line four. Brain would not connect.
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Best in Show Shih Tzu on GMA high as a kite! I must say it is a pretty dog!
re: #64 Shropshire Slasher
A useful person, in the scheme of things.
re: #60 Romantic Heretic
In my opinion tech has replaced religion as the major repository of faith in many people. They don’t really understand it but they ‘know it’s true’.
This has become a problem in many areas. People incorrectly question expertise. Because they just “know”.
Happened to me the other day.
Discussing a sort of complicated financial decision someone told me I was wrong because he had a spreadsheet at home that “proved” it.
The particular question was one I am asked a lot. I know how to do the analysis and I know how he got his answer.
He ignored 8 variables and only focused on the 2 easy obvious ones. Well then of course it works.
If I tried to explain you have to account for these other 6 I’d have got “oh they don’t matter” or something else equally hand waving.
he had already decided he was right and so no matter what I would explain, he still had to be.
Accepting reality is too much of an adjustment for people who are certain they already “know”.
Just like everybody knows that our cities are on fire and terrorized by a spike in crime, that Universities breed woke ideology and trans people groom youths.
re: #65 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area…
…the language of the 14A is there and all the fucking originalists/textualists right wing extremists who crave to use the literal language and the wording and context of the original wording of the 14A and all the debate about said enactment and ratification of the 14A would clearly disqualify Trump for any elected office on its face…
Here’s the thing - if this ruling favors Trump and he’s above the law, then so too is Biden, and Biden can simply ignore the SCOTUS, imprison and hold the GOP seditious treasonweasels accountable on the face, without any consequences, even as GOPers will always position themselves as IOKIYAR.
People are saying that in a previous draft of the 14A, the founders had included the words “except Trump” to cover this very situation.
They ended up removing it because they felt it was unnecessary and redundant. They were confident anyone would be able to see how obvious it was that it didn’t need to be stated in writing.
Unfortunately there is no copy or record of this previous draft.
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just like everybody knows that our cities are on fire and terrorized by a spike in crime, that Universities breed woke ideology and trans people groom youths.
Or apologizing.
From WHYY and WPVI (6abc): Philadelphia’s first female Mayor to be “sworn” in today. The real news story behind this is that Cherelle Parker was sworn in privately at midnight on New Years Day. That happened because Philadelphia’s Home Rule Charter states that an incoming elected official must be sworn in on the first Monday in January. This year it happened to be New Years Day.
whyy.org
FBI now investigating a car crash at a Rochester theater venue with 2 deaths and 5 injuries as a possible terror incident, after gas canisters were found in the vehicle.
Trump’s stochastic terrorism in action: Maine Secretary of State swatted by Trumpists after ruling Trump is disqualified from being on the ballot on the plain language of the 14A.
Kentucky looking to let vigilantes shoot homeless people on the streets.
Joe Sonka @joesonka.bsky.social
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Louisville-area Republican state lawmakers plan to sponsor legislation this session that would ban street camping, add unlawful camping to Kentucky’s “stand your ground” law and cut funding for Housing First initiatives: #kyga24
(emphasis mine)
re: #69 Dangerman
It’s what you learn after you know it all that really counts. - Robert A. Heinlein
re: #79 Nerdy Fish
This has always been one of the goals of the authoritarians and barbarians masquerading as conservatives.
The power to murder at will.
re: #79 Nerdy Fish
If you can stand your ground, then a homeless person should be likewise entitled, but this is merely Purge-inspired extremism and Zardoz approves.
re: #49 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The Japan plane crash/explosion was due to a collision with another plane - a Japanese Coast Guard plane crashed (Dash 80) into the A350. While everyone on board the A350 survived, the smaller Coast Guard plane crew wasn’t so lucky. 5 dead. Pilot of the Coast Guard plane survived.
It’s not clear why both planes were in the same space on the taxiway/runway vicinity. That’ll be the focus of the investigation.
re: #84 lawhawk
It was a crash on landing, which means either the Coast Guard plane didn’t know where it was, the Airbus landed on the wrong runway (HIGHLY unlikely, but it has happened before), or the airport controllers messed up. Someone is having a very bad day.
re: #86 jeffreyw
Those birds look like woodpeckers.
My politics is getting so contorted but it’s basically this:
Vote like hell for Biden in 2024 so we don’t lose the right to protest Biden vigorously in 2025 or the freedom to replace him with somebody far better in 2028
My New Year’s Resolution is to explain this to voters— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) January 1, 2024
re: #88 Belafon
Spoken like a true bothsider.
re: #89 PhillyPretzel ✅
Spoken like a true bothsider.
Really? Because that just sounds like a Democrat who is paying attention to me.
re: #88 Belafon
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Lots of variables
You can’t just focus on “too old”
re: #90 Belafon
That works too. Please forgive me because I am in full celebration mode because the first female is going to be sworn in as Mayor of Philadelphia today. Actually she already is but today is the ceremony.
North Carolina Pastor Accused of Trying to Deep-Fry Man’s Head
A North Carolina pastor is facing assault charges after he was accused of trying to shove a man’s head into a McDonald’s deep fryer. Dwayne Waden of Elevated Life International Ministries was arrested Thursday by the High Point Police Department after allegedly punching a co-worker of his wife, who is training to be a McDonald’s manager, then forcing the colleague’s head down towards the fryer. The 34-year-old victim—who Waden claimed had “disrespected” his spouse—was taken to the hospital with contusions and scratches, according to police. Waden, 57, was booked and released on $1,000 bond.
…grease is the word…
re: #94 Dangerman
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Fidelity believes that X is now worth 71.5% less than at the time of purchase by Elon Musk, Axios reports.This includes a 10.7% cut during November, during which time Musk told boycotting X advertisers to “go fuck yourself” during an on-stage interview.
4d chess indeed
The first election related MAGA terrorist attack of 2024 has occurred. It won’t be the last.
A man’s been arrested after firing shots inside the Colorado Supreme Court building.
— Buzz Burbank (@MichaelJElston) January 2, 2024
re: #97 No Malarkey!
Unfortunately you are correct. I am not looking forward to Primary day.
re: #87 PhillyPretzel ✅
Those birds look like woodpeckers.
The pair are Downy woodpeckers, the larger bird in the second pic is a male Hairy woodpecker. The only way I can tell them apart is by size.
re: #99 Decatur Deb
Working illustration of “Fuck You Money”.
At least Heath Ledger’s Joker had principles, “Watch the world burn” principles, but they were at least principles.
“Appealing to 7% of the market less profitable than appealing to 97% of the market. Who would have guessed?”
Plus, if the math is right…
“He could have given 1,000,000 people $15/hour to do nothing for the whole year and he’d be better off financially than the reality in which he bought Twitter instead.”
And I still love how so many still refer to it as twitter.
Just like mike lindell ” the mypillow guy”
They will *never* unbrand
re: #101 Belafon
At least Heath Ledger’s Joker had principles, “Watch the world burn” principles, but they were at least principles.
“Say what you like about the NSDP,…”
re: #69 Dangerman
This has become a problem in many areas. People incorrectly question expertise. Because they just “know”.
Happened to me the other day.
Discussing a sort of complicated financial decision someone told me I was wrong because he had a spreadsheet at home that “proved” it.The particular question was one I am asked a lot. I know how to do the analysis and I know how he got his answer.
He ignored 8 variables and only focused on the 2 easy obvious ones. Well then of course it works.
If I tried to explain you have to account for these other 6 I’d have got “oh they don’t matter” or something else equally hand waving.
he had already decided he was right and so no matter what I would explain, he still had to be.
Accepting reality is too much of an adjustment for people who are certain they already “know”.
The world is too complex so we all model it in various ways. But to ignore reality, to stick with a model even when it has been shown to be wrong, is a pathway to destruction and obselecence. As has happened at least 6 times in the last 250 years, one group sticking to old models of the world is collapsing even while another group using better models is rising.There is conflict as the former tries to turn back the tide, but because their models simply are no longer selective representations of the world, they will fail.
Nature cannot be fooled - Richard Feynman
Second new year birdie. Not the worse start to the year.
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Trump Kicks Off 2024 With New Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory
Donald Trump rang in the New Year on Monday by accusing his GOP nemesis Liz Cheney of deleting and destroying evidence from the Jan. 6 committee in an act of supposed “EXTREME SABOTAGE” against him.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, the 2024 Republican frontrunner also asserted that evidence is now “gone” that would have supported his repeatedly debunked claim of having ordered 10,000 troops to protect the Capitol ahead of the insurrection. Trump provided no evidence to back up his allegations.
Keep lying asshole, keep lying…
I have probably been wasting my time, but I’ve been arguing on Xitter with a socialist convinced that Biden is a war criminal and Trump isn’t so bad. If she had a blue checkmark, I would’ve already blocked her. I guess seeing predictions that Trump is likely to win have made me desperate to try to open people’s eyes while there’s still time. I’m still convinced that people gripey about Biden while he’s not yet the nominee will break decisively in his favor once they focus on the reality of choosing between him and Trump in the Fall, but I don’t want to be complacent either.
Biden isn’t doing anything in Gaza other than urging restraint on the Israelis. You have apparently developed amnesia about the brutal policies Trump instituted on our border, but that is nothing compared to the atrocities he is openly stating he will commit in his second term.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) January 2, 2024
And just as he starts to enter Public Domain here comes a Mickey Mouse slasher film!
A trailer for a slasher film, featuring a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse, was released on 1 January, the day that Disney’s copyright on the earliest versions of the cartoon character expired in the US.
“We just wanted to have fun with it,” the movie’s director said.
A new Mickey-inspired horror game, showing the rodent covered with blood stains, also dropped on the same day.
re: #104 silverdolphin
The world is too complex so we all model it in various ways. But to ignore reality, to stick with a model even when it has been shown to be wrong, is a pathway to destruction and obselecence. As has happened at least 6 times in the last 250 years, one group sticking to old models of the world is collapsing even while another group using better models is rising.There is conflict as the former tries to turn back the tide, but because their models simply are no longer selective representations of the world, they will fail.
Nature cannot be fooled - Richard Feynman
+1 in general.
In my specific example, fail=not make the money they thought they would.
re: #107 No Malarkey!
800,000 Gazans aren’t going anywhere.
re: #97 No Malarkey!
The first election related MAGA terrorist attack of 2024 has occurred. It won’t be the last.
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That should be enough to convince Trump’s SCOTUS picks not to cross the line.
re: #109 Dangerman
+1 in general.
In my specific example, fail=not make the money they thought they would.
Understood. My tendency to inductive reasoning, especially before I have had coffee, has sometimes caused problems. Their bad spreadsheet will not lead to collapse.
Yet. ;-)
re: #106 Joe Bacon ✅
Trump Kicks Off 2024 With New Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory
Donald Trump rang in the New Year on Monday by accusing his GOP nemesis Liz Cheney of deleting and destroying evidence from the Jan. 6 committee in an act of supposed “EXTREME SABOTAGE” against him.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, the 2024 Republican frontrunner also asserted that evidence is now “gone” that would have supported his repeatedly debunked claim of having ordered 10,000 troops to protect the Capitol ahead of the insurrection. Trump provided no evidence to back up his allegations.
Keep lying asshole, keep lying…
The committee could only “destroy” the copies they received
re: #111 darthstar
That should be enough to convince Trump’s SCOTUS picks not to cross the line.
I am afraid the violence will be much worse later this year if Trump is on the ballot. I don’t expect the Court to affirm Colorado, but I have no doubt it would be for the best for the nation if Trump was barred from office. However the election shakes out, it’s going to be a bumpy year.
More Florida GOP Follies
Seems the GOP Chairman is a Peeping Tom!
‘Video voyeurism’: Police expand investigation into embattled GOP chair accused of rape
Sarasota police are expanding their criminal investigation into Christian Ziegler, the embattled chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, to include video voyeurism, a felony that carries a possible five-year prison penalty. Ziegler has been accused of rape by the same woman he and his wife, a Moms for Liberty co-founder and school board member who helped draft Governor Ron DeSantis’ “Don’t Say Gay” law, admit to having a three-way sexual relationship with.
According to a search warrant affidavit, police believe Christian Ziegler unlawfully filmed his alleged rape of the woman, which he claims was consensual. They have obtained a search warrant for Ziegler’s Instagram account, which they believe contains “evidence of the crime,” according to the Florida Trident, which also first broke the news of the rape allegation against Ziegler and of the three-way relationship.
The woman, who has not been named, says she was not aware Ziegler had filmed the encounter.
The alleged rape occurred after the woman canceled a planned three-way sexual encounter with the Zieglers, known as Florida’s Republican “power couple,” upon learning Bridget Ziegler, Christian’s wife who has strong ties to Gov. DeSantis, was not available.
“Detectives spoke with both the victim and Ziegler’s wife,” Sarasota Police Det. Megan Buck wrote in the search warrant affidavit. “The victim did not give Ziegler consent to take this video of them having sex. Neither … Ziegler’s wife or the victim knew anything about this video that had been taken of the sexual encounter on 10/02/23, and neither had seen the video of this encounter.”
The Herald-Tribune adds, “A Sarasota police detective wrote in the search warrant affidavit for Instagram records that she believes ‘probable cause exists to show (Zeigler) has utilized Instagram to commit the crime of Video Voyeurism.’”
Police have obtained two sex videos of the Zieglers: the one Christian reportedly filmed of the alleged rape, and a second one, of Bridget Ziegler “engaging in sexual relations” with an unidentified woman, sources said, according to a previous report by the Trident. “It is not known if the woman in the video is the same woman who has alleged she was sexually assaulted by Christian Ziegler.”
re: #41 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿
Your next Wordle seems to have an even chance of dropping you in a bunker.
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Colorado Supreme Court shooting seems to be the spontaneous consequence of a traffic accident:
re: #119 No Malarkey!
If it’s not MAGA, it’s awfully coincidental.
1:15 AM—heavily armed rando losing his shit.
re: #119 No Malarkey!
If it’s not MAGA, it’s awfully coincidental.
there’s a lot of maga out there
you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one somewhere doing something
sometimes they’re just their ‘normal’ selves rather than being political idiots
re: #107 No Malarkey!
The horseshoe Left will be utterly silent as Trump’s concentration camps along the Mexico border get underway. They will also remain silent as US Military strikes inside Mexico, clearly against International Law, commence.
Instead, many of the lighter complexioned hard Left will exercise their white privilege and pivot to Trump-land tribal loyalty as his upcoming populist rhetorical bluster and once again forced sitting down with CEOs proves popular (despite serving no real world change). Those not blessed with a lack of melanin will wisely keep their heads down low or if they have means simply move overseas away from what is coming.
finally working my way through Andor since I picked Disney Plus up for bowl game watching (long story, but it worked for everything but the playoff games). Was definitely not expecting his nonverbal response to the suggestion from his partner in crime to running off with the imperial payroll. Always nice to know show runners are still capable of surprising me.
re: #122 Florida Panhandler
The horseshoe Left will be utterly silent as Trump’s concentration camps along the Mexico border get underway. They will also remain silent as US Military strikes inside Mexico, clearly against International Law, commence.
No, they’ll be yelling at Democrats for not earning their votes
Former President Donald Trump won’t face repercussions over the way he appears to have used federal prison guards to intimidate his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, jailing and silencing him in 2020 ahead of his tell-all memoir about the billionaire’s mob-like behavior.
On Tuesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York affirmed a federal judge’s decision to dismiss the case, which dealt with a particularly authoritarian episode in the final year of Trump’s presidency. The three-judge panel wouldn’t let Cohen use a legal remedy that allows someone who’s been abused by federal agents to seek justice for the misconduct.
Motherfather got away with it. A WARNING OF THINGS TO COME…
Hamas’ deputy leader is DEAD.
This is official
Saleh Al Arouri has been assassinated in Beirut, Lebanon
There were 2 more with Arouri in Dahia, Beirut. All are dead pic.twitter.com/EJlch99e1w
— Aleph א (@no_itsmyturn) January 2, 2024
BREAKING: Iranian news agency Mehr reports that a senior leader in Hamas and two aides were killed in the attack in Beirut
#BREAKING: Iranian news agency Mehr reports that a senior leader in Hamas and two aides were killed in the attack in Beirut https://t.co/dVsS5J0Cyd
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) January 2, 2024
re: #97 No Malarkey!
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man’s been arrestedPatriot is being persecuted afterfiring shotsexcercising his First and Second Amendment Rights inside the Colorado Supreme Court building.
re: #76 lawhawk
FBI now investigating a car crash at a Rochester theater venue with 2 deaths and 5 injuries as a possible terror incident, after gas canisters were found in the vehicle.
He’s white, and the family is saying he was bipolar even though there’s no offiicial diagnosis so police are going with “lone crazy guy” even though there is demonstrable planning involved. (Multiple stops for filling different gas canisters, rented truck, hotel room for stay, suicide note.)
I’ll reiterate my personal belief that almost all terrorists who are not in group leadership who are not stochastic demagogues are mentally or socially challenged people.
re: #32 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Since I’m shopping for a computer I read quite a number of websites and forums, and watch YouTube videos by “tech” reviewers.
And, showing my age here, it seems there are a lot of whiny brats who love to hate on certain things.
Lots of Apple haters. It’s an odd phenomenon but it is what 2023 and now 2024 brings us.
Linux has collected a weird following. Seem like so-called “libertarian” nuts.
Many “tech” (how I hate that term) reviewers don’t really know how things work or how they are made. They are just professional shoppers and low-rung marketers, who are willing to do a job for major corporations for peanuts.
Lots of negative reviews for certain kinds of hardware, especially monitors. I can understand this, as the typical monitor is really not made to be a statement of design or construction.
“Gamers”, as they call themselves, are really insulating themselves from reality, or so it seems to me. They think 120Hz refresh rate is all that matters. I think there is something going horribly wrong with our society if young people get histrionic over 60Hz refresh rates on monitors. Call me a fuddy-duddy if you will.
Looking at how people type in their videos, has anyone under 40 y.o. learned to type properly?
No, I don’t want a keyboard that glows in rainbow colors that are constantly changing.
Rare to find people discussing printers. 30 years ago the big deal was getting smaller and lighter laser printers. Does anyone print stuff out any more? (Note, I haven’t had a working printer in 5 or 6 years, so I guess I should talk…)
Because smartphones are so ubiquitous now I wonder what will happen if something drastic happens and wireless no longer is available.
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Bottom line: not looking forward to spending lots of money just to get a set-up I will enjoy.
Unless you are a gamer or media creator, there is very little reason why you would need to spend lots of money(relatively speaking)
I recently bought a mini pc, specifically the Minisforum UM790m pro with 48gb 6400mhz ddr5 ram, 2 tb of 7500mb/s nvme storage all in for about $500.
Even with the integrated graphics I can play most modern AAA titles at medium settings.
It basically comes down to use case, if you ask a gamer they are going to hate on Apple because they can’t game with it, if you ask a youtube editor they are going to love the macbook pro because of the native video encoding and all day battery. The refresh rate on a monitor is important if you are a competitive gamer, otherwise it is just pretty, although 240-280hz is the new hotness, not 120…that is so old school ;)
If you are just surfing the web and creating the occaisional document get a $200 chromebook.
re: #102 Dangerman
turns out that alt-fascist CT fans don’t want their own sites, they wanna be allowed to crash other sites social media without feeling marginalized or face any consequences for their excesses..
The US has a long history of election day violence, especially against minorities (the Know-Nothings, the closest to Trumpers, IMHO, were responsible for several massacres against immigrants in the years before 1860.
What I am hopeful for this time is that the FBI is in a better position than recently to forestall organized violence with jail time and will be looking to take pre-emptive actions. They may not stop everything but could likely stop a lot of the big stuff.
Fingers crossed.
re: #88 Belafon
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— Funkasaurus 🌻 (@Pretefunkera) January 1, 2024
re: #135 sagehen
“But I had to spend $28 at Taco Bell!!!”
re: #135 sagehen
Add this—Joe Biden is the most pro-labor President in American History.
re: #137 Joe Bacon ✅
Yes. He is pro-union. :)
re: #30 silverdolphin
Can Trump Save Democracy from Itself?
From the mainstream American Conservative. Everything being done against Trump (“to turn populist uprisings like Trump’s into a matter for the criminal justice system, rather than political contestation”) is piurely political, trying to prevent the will of the people from being felt. See, removing a fascist from the ballot is the greatest anti-democratic thing ever. The first impeachment was “based on flimsy allegations about a phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president.” Talk about misconstruing the facts.
He sees this as a Deep State conspiracy not as a populist uprising of its own.
And this is why even moderate Republicans will vote for Trump. It is a cult.
I have never thought of American Conservative as mainstream; hasn’t it always been far-right? One of its founding members is Pat Buchanan. So fanatic right-wing publication whose views are without merit and toxic to our nation.
re: #131 danarchy
Second the $200 Chromebook. I got one for my mother in law when she moved to California… time to update as she’s had it for 7 years now. She does zoom, shopping, and email.
re: #139 Hecuba’s daughter
I have never thought of American Conservative as mainstream; hasn’t it always been far-right? One of its founding members is Pat Buchanan. So fanatic right-wing publication whose views are without merit and toxic to our nation.
That’s the thought I couldn’t pry out of my head. Thanks.
The new HP Chromebook at Costco is nice and has a bit of horsepower for a Chromebook
Steve Bannon wants Cassidy Hutchinson arrested and jailed…
“Given Cassie Hutchinson’s bald-face perjury, and she should go to jail for a long time!” he exclaimed. “That’s how important this is.”
“You’re not going to be able to stand up there and lie about a guy in the middle of a fight for the control of the country, young lady,” Bannon added. “You’re not going to be able to change your testimony. We got it on tape.”
Meanwhile he uses every trick in the book to stay out of jail
It’s Bannon who should be jailed.
re: #139 Hecuba’s daughter
I have never thought of American Conservative as mainstream; hasn’t it always been far-right? One of its founding members is Pat Buchanan. So fanatic right-wing publication whose views are without merit and toxic to our nation.
TAC has always been pro-fascist and Buchanan is a Hitler apologist at best. You are right, people really should avoid linking to hate sites where possible and warn that it’s a hate site if they feel they must link.
TAC is one of those “high minded, wants to be the new National Review” sites where the fascism is semi disguised by verbosity and portmanteau words. If you boil off the fluff of most articles there you will find it to be unerringly tribal nationalist.
(another demonstration that the “Overton Window” has shifted too far right is when TAC gets considered a Mainstream site…)
re: #135 sagehen
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Biden/Harris does a pretty good job listing many of these. Not the marijuana ones yet likely because the process is still ongoing.
And another thing so many forget - he got us out of the longest war in American history. He took a big hit for doing that but I believe history will see it as an important thing to accomplish.
re: #146 silverdolphin
[Biden] got us out of the longest war in American history. He took a big hit for doing that but I believe history will see it as an important thing to accomplish.
Trump did an outstanding job of setting him up with a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t situation.
Trump supporters’ cultish devotion shocks rival GOP operatives: ‘Nothing could move them’
The result of 40+ years of brainwashing from the 24/7 Republican Bullshit Machine.
re: #152 Dangerman
Carl is absolutely right.
re: #139 Hecuba’s daughter
I have never thought of American Conservative as mainstream; hasn’t it always been far-right? One of its founding members is Pat Buchanan. So fanatic right-wing publication whose views are without merit and toxic to our nation.
It has been a part of the mainstream Republican viewpoint is what I meant. It was started actually as a critic of the Bush/Cheney Republicans by Buchanan and other paleo-conservatives. Mostly upset with foreign policy, it once asked people to vote for Democrats in protest of Bush. So it once held value by showing the differences in the various right factions. But these factions no longer exist.
In the last few years it has fallen into line with the extreme MAGA GOP and now serves, every so often, as an interesting insight into the warped, toxic minds of the supposed “adults” whose epistemic closure reveals their weakness.
It helps me understand my enemy. well, not understand but watch in horror ;-)
re: #93 Joe Bacon ✅
North Carolina Pastor Accused of Trying to Deep-Fry Man’s Head
A North Carolina pastor is facing assault charges after he was accused of trying to shove a man’s head into a McDonald’s deep fryer. Dwayne Waden of Elevated Life International Ministries was arrested Thursday by the High Point Police Department after allegedly punching a co-worker of his wife, who is training to be a McDonald’s manager, then forcing the colleague’s head down towards the fryer. The 34-year-old victim—who Waden claimed had “disrespected” his spouse—was taken to the hospital with contusions and scratches, according to police. Waden, 57, was booked and released on $1,000 bond.
…grease is the word…
*SHUDDER* Those fryers run between 355-375F. Instant 2nd degree burn on contact with the oil (or basket if just pulled). I’ve got the burn scars on my forearms to prove that.
re: #155 darthstar
Opps. Sorry. Rob is absolutely right. Sorry about that there is a lot of celebration here in Philly. A woman and a woman of color is in charge of the city. Yay.
“The paradox for MAGA supporters is clear: believing in Trump’s strength and competence is incompatible with the notion that the election was stolen from him.” More here:https://t.co/SA3TjJw8P3 pic.twitter.com/bJ7A1O50Oo
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@AdamKinzinger) January 2, 2024
re: #158 Dangerman
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“This paradox should cause MAGA supporters to reconsider their backing of Donald Trump. They believe that he was the rightful winner of the 2020 election and that it was unfairly taken from him through massive fraud on a historical proportion.”
“Herein lies the contradiction. In November 2020, Trump was the incumbent President, arguably the most powerful person in the world, with considerable control over all the levers of the United States Government. Which begs the question: How then could someone of such stature who possesses such strength and such competence have an election stolen from them? Hard to fathom, right!”
“If Trump were truly strong and competent, such a scenario would be impossible. Therefore, if the 2020 election was indeed stolen from him, it only underscores his weakness and incompetence, arguably making him the weakest, most incompetent and the least effective President in the history of the United States.”
Woohoo! “Slow Horses” renewed for season five
Ramadamadingdong won’t do the CNN debate because his fee fees are hurt from a CNN pundit saying he’s just a step away from being a full blown Nazi…
re: #162 Joe Bacon ✅
Ramadamadingdong won’t do the CNN debate because his fee fees are hurt from a CNN pundit saying he’s just a step away from being a full blown Nazi…
Wasn’t Ramalamadingdong one of those who said he would be withdrawing from the ballot in Colorado because their Supreme Court kicked Trump off? What a complete buffoon.
re: #156 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
*SHUDDER* Those fryers run between 355-375F. Instant 2nd degree burn on contact with the oil (or basket if just pulled). I’ve got the burn scars on my forearms to prove that.
I imagine you’d get burns just for being near it.
re: #164 sagehen
I imagine you’d get burns just for being near it.
Air is a pretty decent insulator, actually, so being near it isn’t as dangerous as you might think. You can get pretty close without it being even uncomfortably hot. The main danger from being near a fryer is getting splattered by bubbles of steam and stuff coming out of what’s being cooked in the fryer popping on the oil’s surface.
Greg Sargent landed on his feet at The New Republic.
re: #162 Joe Bacon ✅
Ramadamadingdong won’t do the CNN debate because his fee fees are hurt from a CNN pundit saying he’s just a step away from being a full blown Nazi…
A goose step.
theguardian.com
Israel and its allies must face facts: peace talks are the only way forward, and they will have to include Hamas
Peter Hain
Lord Hain is a former UK Middle East minister and Northern Ireland secretary of state
After the Hamas terror of 7 October and Benjamin Netanyahu’s horrific retaliation in Gaza, some long overdue truths need stating. First, Israel is not going to “destroy Hamas”, as its leaders promise - not even by destroying Gaza.
Although Israel is damaging Hamas militarily, maybe significantly, with many of its tunnels eliminated and its fighters fleeing, Hamas is a movement and an ideology that, in many respects, Netanyahu’s extremism helped to promote.
Rightwing Israeli governments have thwarted serious negotiations with Palestine’s more “moderate” party, the late Yasser Arafat’s Fatah, since the Camp David summit in 2000 - more than 20 years ago. They have also consistently oppressed Gaza residents, imposing a near-constant state of siege. Is it really surprising that many Palestinians turned in desperation to an extremist alternative in Hamas?
The lesson of all modern conflicts must be that failure by the powerful to end injustice and negotiate a solution breeds extremism. As Britain’s troubled history in Northern Ireland vividly demonstrates, when politics doesn’t work, violence fills the vacuum.
British governments refused for decades to officially negotiate with the IRA because of its terrorist outrages. But when they finally did so, it resulted in the 1998 Good Friday agreement. Although an immensely painful pill for unionists to swallow, it was supported by the US president, the UK prime minister and an EU president, all of whose successors have apparently forgotten that fundamental lesson.
re: #166 teleskiguy
Greg Sargent landed on his feet at The New Republic.
Guy who has been at the forefront of calling out the fascist tendencies of GOP is shitcanned from WaPo, but those at WaPo who curried favors with said GOPers are still there. That includes Bob Woodward, who hid the disastrous covid response by Trump for more than a year to make sure that he held back the juicy bits for a book, rather than informing the public in near real time when it really mattered.
Sargent is real good, so glad he got a good gig, even though it doesn’t have the same reach as WaPo.
Great start to my year—I’ve been email invited to attend the Illinois Soybean Association’s Illinois Soybean Summit. I’ll make it if they hold it at Panama City Beach, and don’t talk about soybeans.
Wait wut????
Wait wtf washcloths are for poor people? Since when?? pic.twitter.com/hGzd3lJBik
— DJ Kam Bennett (@KameronBennett) January 1, 2024
re: #165 Nerdy Fish
Air is a pretty decent insulator, actually, so being near it isn’t as dangerous as you might think. You can get pretty close without it being even uncomfortably hot. The main danger from being near a fryer is getting splattered by bubbles of steam and stuff coming out of what’s being cooked in the fryer popping on the oil’s surface.
Or some dip shit tossing (instead of lowering) a basket into the oil and splashing hot oil everywhere because they are pissed off at having to work the fryers.
re: #168 sagehen
theguardian.com
Israel and its allies must face facts: peace talks are the only way forward, and they will have to include Hamas
Peter Hain
Lord Hain is a former UK Middle East minister and Northern Ireland secretary of state
Someone ask him who on the Palestinian side favors and will negotiate for a two-state solution (means acknowledging Israel’s legitimacy).
re: #172 Dave In Austin
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re: #172 Dave In Austin
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re: #175 wrenchwench
Now we know the seat of the problem with trumparoma
“When I was very young, I used my hand to bathe and my granny told me to use a washcloth. Now I know she just wanted me to feel poor.”
re: #168 sagehen
theguardian.com
Israel and its allies must face facts: peace talks are the only way forward, and they will have to include Hamas
hamas and its allies must face facts: peace talks are the only way forward, and they will have to include israel
WaPo ping: Harvard pres resigns over plagiarism and antisemitism.
re: #176 Decatur Deb
The truly elite have the dirt licked from their bodies by bevies of Polovtsian maidens.
While Borodin plays in the background?
re: #184 Backwoods Sleuth
Yes. Even WaPo admitted they got the story from The Harvard Crimson.
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re: #102 Dangerman
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“Appealing to 7% of the market less profitable than appealing to 97% of the market. Who would have guessed?”
Plus, if the math is right…
“He could have given 1,000,000 people $15/hour to do nothing for the whole year and he’d be better off financially than the reality in which he bought Twitter instead.”
And I still love how so many still refer to it as twitter.
Just like mike lindell ” the mypillow guy”They will *never* unbrand
If your target market is shit-eaters, your campaign can make sense to 100% of that market, while looking non-sensical to 100% of everyone else.
re: #183 Dangerman
While Borodin plays in the background?
……….
How do you do,
I’m Conrad Jarvis and I’ve been dead for six years.
But this record offer is so spectacular I just had to come back to tell you about it.
one point for identifying the original commercial
one bonus point for identifying the comedian
re: #162 Joe Bacon ✅
He’s saying this to cover the fact he knows he’s going to lose and his campaign therefore stopped spending money on TV ads.
re: #182 PhillyPretzel ✅
WaPo ping: Harvard pres resigns over plagiarism and antisemitism.
NY Democrats will definitely gerrymander Elise out of her seat now.
Quadrantid meteor shower 2024: The year’s 1st meteor shower blazes over North America on Jan. 3
The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak this week and could bring up to 120 shooting stars per hour to the night sky.
It has the potential to be the strongest meteor shower of 2024, according to the American Meteor Society, but with such a short peak — just six hours — the shower’s climax can often occur in daylight.
This year, the predicted peak is 7:53 a.m. EST (12:53 GMT) on Jan. 4, according to EarthSky. That makes the pre-dawn hours — from around 4:53 a.m. EST to dawn — the best time to observe the shower from North America. Those in western regions of the continent will have the best chance to watch for Quadrantids earlier at night
re: #199 Backwoods Sleuth
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Reminds me of this meme:
Seems it is not acceptable to refer to the children as “those little shits” at a PTA meeting. I know this now.
Just watched Steamboat Willie for both the first time in public domain and in several years.
Gonna be honest: Mickey is a shitty employee. The big cat boat captain has every right to be perpetually pissed off at him.
re: #200 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Good Dog—that’s 49 years old.
Here is the good news story of the day.
“Woman let’s dog out for morning pee, she comes home with a medal from running a half marathon”
I love dogs. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Rx3Zvc1JI3— Danny (@danzu72) January 2, 2024
“BIDEN LOVES MINORS” the same week Donald Trump pops up on Jeffrey Esptein’s flight logs.
In MAGA World, everything is projection because they have no self-awareness. pic.twitter.com/LSs1uBGIa1— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) January 2, 2024
re: #200 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
It’s here:
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I loved that movie.
Starting today, all three major insulin manufacturers are offering $35/mo caps on out-of-pocket costs.
Also today, they’re cutting list prices by 70% or more - a move that’s expected to *save* them hundreds of millions of dollars a year. pic.twitter.com/vVcpwsl7uW— Meg Tirrell (@megtirrell) January 1, 2024
re: #182 PhillyPretzel ✅
WaPo ping: Harvard pres resigns over plagiarism and antisemitism.
sorry, one citation screw-up in a dissertation is a discussion with the chair about being more careful. Half-a-dozen is “thanks for playing, but your work isn’t rigorous enough for top-flight research. We’ll issue you a master’s so you can teach down at vocational tech.”
re: #200 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
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I saw the premiere of A Boy and HIs Dog at Filmex in 1975. I will never forget it because Filmex had a 40 science fiction film marathon that was anchored by this movie. We forgot to bring money, everything was closed overnight and we were starving by the next day. We ate sugar and catsup packets until the stores opened.
re: #207 Joe Bacon ✅
She’s gonna be a footnote in history by the end of the year as she ran herself out of her district because she can’t win despite all the incumbent advantages, and decided to run in a right wing district across the state where she has zero contacts/doesn’t live there. Why? Ken Buck is retiring, so she thinks she can just waltz in and win? Ha. There’s half a dozen other right wingers who live in the district and think they can win (and they have backing from the local GOP). Boebert doesn’t, and she’s already indicated she’s not running in her current district, which means Democrats are likely to pick up the seat. Woo!
I thought it was a misprint but Bob Ross is on WHYY.
re: #156 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
*SHUDDER* Those fryers run between 355-375F. Instant 2nd degree burn on contact with the oil (or basket if just pulled). I’ve got the burn scars on my forearms to prove that.
yeah, my brother’s a professional chef. the only burns that scare him are steam or grease. Just burning the shit out of something in the oven doesn’t phase him anymore.
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