re: #330 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
The White House adrenochrome supply is perhaps running short as they try to keep Biden mobile and lucid with overdoses. Thus the other staff are having to cut back and they are getting sick?
I was thinking maybe he’s radiantly sucking the life-force out of those around him to stay active.
re: #330 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
The White House adrenochrome supply is perhaps running short as they try to keep Biden mobile and lucid with overdoses. Thus the other staff are having to cut back and they are getting sick?
Time to open up another pizza parlor?
re: #3 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
That means rain for AZ. We always need it!
re: #1 Belafon
Biden’s a Sith Lord. Darth Brandon.
Just you wait….if SCOTUS rules that the President has absolute immunity, he’s gonna Force push the doors open, and blast the Sleazy Six with Force lightning while bellowing, “POWER! UNLIMITED POWER!!” then he’s gonna pay Donnie a visit down there at Mar-a-Lago, strutting in the front door, saying, “I’ve waited a long time for this moment, my little green tubby orange friend.”
re: #3 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Latest GFS run is warning us that SoCal is going to get a lot of rain starting Wednesday, with multiple storms over 9 days.
Y’all up in LA-land could be looking at 10” by the 10th of Feb:
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Are these storms likely to help with the state water-supply? I recall reading a little while back (New Years’?) that CA might be looking at lower-than-desired water levels later on this year based on snowpack percentages as of whenever. I know it’s more important to get the precip up in the Sierras where the catchment areas are, but all that rain for SoCal…
re: #6 Jay C
It’s gonna be a mess.
If Noah and his ark start floating down Wilshire Boulevard then I know we’re in trouble!
Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
re: #4 Egregious Philbin
That means rain for AZ. We always need it!
Time to water my cacti. I follow the weather report for Pinal County and water them whenever it rains there.
re: #8 Joe Bacon ✅
Featuring Hate Group leader Tony Perkins
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re: #12 Randall Gross
Featuring Hate Group leader Tony Perkins
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Slacktavist calls him The Liar Tony Perkins.
re: #12 Randall Gross
Featuring Hate Group leader
Tony PerkinsMike Johnson
re: #8 Joe Bacon ✅
No chance they’re going to personally repent, they’re just going to call for other people to do it.
— Ed Mix (@EdMix13) January 30, 2024
Any word on the appeals court or Judge Engoron yet?
Both of those things could happen today.
re: #19 darthstar
The insectoid antennae add some flair.
— Ed Mix (@EdMix13) January 30, 2024
re: #18 darthstar
Any word on the appeals court or Judge Engoron yet?
Both of those things could happen today.
The appeals court did not issue any opinions today. It looks like that one, at least, is coming tomorrow.
re: #6 Jay C
Are these storms likely to help with the state water-supply? I recall reading a little while back (New Years’?) that CA might be looking at lower-than-desired water levels later on this year based on snowpack percentages as of whenever. I know it’s more important to get the precip up in the Sierras where the catchment areas are, but all that rain for SoCal…
There’s supposed to be good snow accumulation in the Sierras with this storm. It’s not a particularly warm system.
I suspect that both Judge Engoron and the DC Court of Appeals are waiting until the very last minute, not out of any desire to delay things, but to make absolutely positively sure that the final opinion is as bulletproof as possible. You just know that both rulings are not going to go Trump’s way, and the resulting shit-fit is going to be like nothing we have ever seen out of this man before. Not giving him any legal legs to stand on is going to be paramount, if this is going to survive before the Calvinball Court.
re: #8 Joe Bacon ✅
Speaker Jesusbot On The Job!
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And Praise Jay-Zuss he’s there with Michelle Bachman!
No rabbis were invited, but there is a Hebrew Christian pastor.
re: #30 Backwoods Sleuth
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all possible efforts be brought to bear
Might that include pressure on residents of Qatar who are also leaders of Hamas?
re: #21 gocart mozart
This is hilarious!!! Can’t stop laughing.
My late spring travel plans:
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re: #35 dat_said
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re: #35 dat_said
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re: #37 dat_said
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Nope. North Dakota
If I’m lucky, I’ll be able to see the state’s only waterfall again. It’s indescribable just how small you feel standing next to that magnificent 8-foot drop.
re: #40 Charles Johnson
Taylor Swift hasn’t even endorsed Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign, but Trump is already privately grousing he’s “more popular” than her
That’s because he has bigger boobs.
Re: Swift. Stonekettle posted this on Threads…
threads.net
Joe Biden: As president, I hereby order you into a secret arranged relationship with sportsball so that I may win the upcoming election and rule the world mahahaha.
Taylor Swift: No.
Biden: It’s an Executive Order.
Swift: No.
Biden: I can have the CIA make you.
Swift: I can have The Swifties topple the entire world order, implode the economy, and key your Corvette.
Biden:
Swift:
Biden: Can I get some free backstage passes to your next show?
Swift: I’ll think about it.
re: #40 Charles Johnson
Have the U.S. ever had a dumber politician?
But the deranged paranoia is just part of the GOP package now. In the Trump era more than before, Republicans built their politics around schemes and ratfucking and lies, and then claiming the REAL schemes were directed AT THEM. So this is what you get.
offmessage.net
re: #44 jaunte
I’m wondering if we’ve ever been stupider. The sheer mass of moron is scary. They have no sense or idea of anything past themselves and the shit they’ve been fed. Incapable of independent thought. Stupid because they truly are.
jfc it gets old.
re: #40 Charles Johnson
That comment in and of itself shows his mental acuity is … lacking.
If Biden somehow managed to coopt Swift, the NFL, and various other associated entities, he should be President. It’s clear he has a better grasp of government and executive power and crushing his enemies with all the means at his disposal. Far from being addled, he’s cold and calculating and taking no chances with a scorched earth tactics to destroy Trump and the GOP.
The reality is something more mundane - Swift doesn’t want Trump or the fascists, and got into a relationship with a player who happened to be on one of this decade’s best football teams. It just happens to align with Biden on the former.
re: #48 nines09
I’m wondering if we’ve ever been stupider. The sheer mass of moron is scary. They have no sense or idea of anything past themselves and the shit they’ve been fed. Incapable of independent thought. Stupid because they truly are.
jfc it gets old.
Mike Judge warned us about Idiotcracy. It’s here.
re: #40 Charles Johnson
Trump Allies Pledge ‘Holy War’ Against Taylor Swift
That’s a war they do not want to start. It will not end well for them.
re: #48 nines09
A person is smart.
People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.
- Agent K, Men in Black
These are the people Trump and his minions are trying to agitate.
Student, father arrested, RPGs found after threat to Rancho Bernardo High School
Police took out a gun violence restraining order at a house located on the 11000 block of Avenida Sivrita, just blocks away from the school. On Tuesday morning, unregistered, un-serialized firearms; manufacturing supplies to make ghost guns (both rifles and handguns) as well as a large number of explosives and rocket-propelled grenades were found at the home, police said.
re: #50 Joe Bacon ✅
They’ve had Rush and right wing hate AM radio along with Fox feeding and watering them for over 50 fucking years.
They bloomed.
Isn’t it beautiful?
Trump loves them, and they love him.
This is very good pic.twitter.com/xILX2LREJO
— Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) January 30, 2024
re: #55 gocart mozart
THAT should scare the living EFF out of anyone sane.
re: #7 Joe Bacon ✅
It’s gonna be a mess.
If Noah and his ark start floating down Wilshire Boulevard then I know we’re in trouble!
re: #57 Joe Bacon ✅
Thin Mints are the best.
re: #56 nines09
THAT should scare the living EFF out of anyone sane.
Head wired for pleasure - it’s the only way to die.
re: #57 Joe Bacon ✅
We ordered a bunch from the neighborhood girls - too many!
re: #51 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That’s a war they do not want to start. It will not end well for them.
“We’re losing them because of school shootings, and we’re losing them because abortion. How do we do better?”
“We go after Taylor Swift.”
“What do you think I meant by better?”
re: #53 jaunte
Rancho Bernardo is one of those bedroom communities, the type that exist for middle-income people to buy houses that they could not afford to buy closer to the ocean or in the city center.
It’s a commuter’s hell, with the commute dependent upon the usually-crowded I-15. But one can afford a larger house there than in any zipcode to the west (or south to I-8.)
re: #57 Joe Bacon ✅
HOT DAMN!!!!
IT’S ALMOST…
DARE I SAY IT...
GIRL
SCOUT
COOKIE
TIME
It’s almost over.
re: #55 gocart mozart
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Medical Design: Synchron’s plan to beat Neuralink in the neuroprosthetic BCI race
Synchron and Neuralink both announced big news this month as they move their dueling neuroimplant technologies forward.
The device developers each have FDA investigational device exemption (IDE) for their experimental BCIs. They’ve also got billionaires backing their R&D and regulatory efforts, with Neuralink owned by Elon Musk and Synchron funded by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates. I’m surprised we haven’t reached a conspiracy theory singularity.
re: #65 dat_said
Medical Design: Synchron’s plan to beat Neuralink in the neuroprosthetic BCI race
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates. I’m surprised we haven’t reached a conspiracy theory singularity.
They were talking about Musk’s thing on GMA this morning, but also pointed out other companies that already had some real success, including an implant to help one guy walk, and another that allowed a woman to control an avatar on a screen to talk to her husband for the first time in years.
These, BTW, are only solvable with machine learning.
re: #29 Charles Johnson
It works on Android with the JuiceSSH app.
re: #59 PhillyPretzel ✅
Thin Mints are the best.
Thin Mints are the mind-killer
*Drops empty cookie sleeve from nerveless fingers*
re: #66 wrenchwench
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These people REALLY need to read their pocket constitutions they had such a hardon for so many years ago.
Article 6, Clause 3
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
re: #59 PhillyPretzel ✅
Thin Mints are the best.
When they are put in the freezer and you take them one at a time…Taste Bud Nirvana…
re: #61 dharmamark
We ordered a bunch from the neighborhood girls - too many!
One can never have too many Girl Scout Cookies…
re: #78 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Mmmm. Samoas! (Or Caramel Delights, based on your zip code.)
A Hershey’s Kiss on top of a Trefoil Shortbread Cookie…
re: #75 Joe Bacon ✅
I like them on the side of a glass of bourbon. ymmv
re: #70 lawhawk
Rudy declares bankruptcy, notes Trump owes him a ton of money. Future lawsuit is likely.
Rudy couldn’t put up the bond to delay payment in the defamation case in Georgia, so declared bankruptcy instead. When making that filing, he had to note creditors and debtors, and Trump figures prominently.
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re: #75 Joe Bacon ✅
When they are put in the freezer and you take them one at a time…Taste Bud Nirvana…
That’s how I do it too. Straight into the freezer when I get them home.
re: #79 Joe Bacon ✅
Trefoils are nice. Walkers are the real deal.
amazon.com
Yes I have bought them a few times.
re: #83 PhillyPretzel ✅
Trefoils are nice. Walkers are the real deal.
amazon.com
The time I dipped Walkers shortbread in Knott’s Boysenberry Syrup…🤩
In order:
Thin Mints
Samoas
Tagalongs, Do-si-dos
The rest
The gap between 1 and 2 and 2 and 3 is smaller than you can imagine.
re: #72 Eventual Carrion
These people REALLY need to read their pocket constitutions they had such a hardon for so many years ago.
Article 6, Clause 3
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
Yet I’m sure somebody out there somewhere* will proffer the opinion that since everyone at the time was assumed to be “Christian”, “constitutional originalism” means that simply no additional Test** would/should be required. But barring the “godless” would be fine and dandy….
* Chances said “somebody” will be a Republican officeholder are rather high….
**I believe “Test” was capitalized here, because in 18th-Century Britain (and its colonies) a formal “Attestation”(“Test”) that one was a member of the Church Of England was required to hold any public office or appointment. Despite the existence of a number of “official” churches in a couple of states, the Framers of the Constitution obviously thought it a concept better to forego….
The Army of God needs better convoy doctrine. They are up to 39 vehicles, including 2 eighteen-wheelers, but they have traveled less than half their day’s distance (281 miles so far). Extra potty breaks and breaks twice as long as planned have eaten them up.
re: #89 Jay C
Yet I’m sure somebody out there somewhere* will proffer the opinion that since everyone at the time was assumed to be “Christian”, “constitutional originalism” means that simply no *additional* Test** would/should be required. But barring the “godless” would be fine and dandy….
* Chances said “somebody” will be a Republican officeholder are rather high….
**I believe “Test” was capitalized here, because in 18th-Century Britain (and its colonies) a formal “Attestation”(“Test”) that one was a member of the Church Of England was required to hold any public office or appointment. Despite the existence of a number of “official” churches in a couple of states, the Framers of the Constitution obviously thought it a concept better to forego….
They’ll just copy and paste what you wrote.
If you use iCloud for Mail, it’s having major outages right now.
re: #70 lawhawk
Rudy declares bankruptcy, notes Trump owes him a ton of money. Future lawsuit is likely.
Rudy couldn’t put up the bond to delay payment in the defamation case in Georgia, so declared bankruptcy instead. When making that filing, he had to note creditors and debtors, and Trump figures prominently.
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i reiterate from the other day:
- tfg owes rudy for legal services
- which is actually for rudy’s work in defaming freeman and moss
- those funds get collected
- and are then turned over to freeman and moss
- who then sue tfg, WITH HIS OWN MONEY, for what tfg directed rudy to do, and what tfg did as well with his own public statements
that there would be some karmic laden schadenfreude overload
re: #92 Charles Johnson
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From the link;
While at least one organizer initially said they planned to hunt down migrants along the border in collaboration with sympathetic members of law enforcement, the group appeared to walk back that assertion on Monday, issuing a statement that the convoy would not be heading to the border at all but instead going to Quemado, a tiny town in Catron County, Texas.
There is also a tiny town of Quemado in Catron County, New Mexico. This could be helpful information to be shared by that group ASAP.
re: #91 wrenchwench
I have a rare plant, passiflora azironica, Arizona passionfruit. When I grow it on my porch, it goes nuts, goes along the trellis under the roof for about 10 feet, and gets very thick. I get tons of fruit, its a small green passion fruit, tastes like guava. Here is the problem, they die after 2 years, so I saved seeds. I planted a ton last year, but only one germinated, I put it outside about 2 weeks before we hit 110 degrees for 30 straight days, it had no chance. Also, the caterpillars can destroy a young plant quickly, when its big, no problem. I have a few that grew as volunteers in other places, so I clipped some leaves and have it in a jar on the sill. Almost to the point where I’ll put it in some rockwool and dirt and get it rooting before transplanting again…
re: #91 wrenchwench
It would be a hoot if you could graft that to a stem with a root mass. You would have a nice plant and a story. Internet is full of suggestions and how to.
@KTVU Plane crash outside my work in Concord Ca 😬😳 pic.twitter.com/BZJLkUf9Ko
— 🏀Megan Kotte 💛💙 (@The1Megan_Kotte) January 30, 2024
Small plane crash kills 1 in East Bay https://t.co/9Ga8ufctV5
— KTVU (@KTVU) January 30, 2024
That’s the airport just down the street from me.
re: #92 Charles Johnson
Nobody could have predicted… Wait, yes we did.
re: #51 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That’s a war they do not want to start. It will not end well for them.
It will end about as well as Booties McBootyface DeSantis’ war with Disney.
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That’s the airport just down the street from me.
Very small plane. I don’t know if it could kill more than one person without landing on someone.
re: #101 darthstar
Nobody could have predicted… Wait, yes we did.
They keep thinking that because they have so many politicians saying what they say, that they must have be surrounded by a large number of people that share their views.
re: #102 sizzzzlerz
It will end about as well as Booties McBootyface DeSantis’ war with Disney.
Probably worse. Disney sticks to the threat of its legal firepower, and uses its army of lawyers to rewrite the law in its favor. Swifties ascribe to no such niceties.
Texas’ standoff with the feds in Eagle Pass is igniting calls for secession and fears of violence
It will only last until the election. Its whole purpose is cynically political.
re: #59 PhillyPretzel ✅
Thin Mints are the best.
Where they print the nutritional information on the wrapper, they should be honest in specifying serving size and just state it’s one entire package.
re: #107 sizzzzlerz
Where they print the nutritional information on the wrapper, they should be honest in specifying serving size and just state it’s one entire package.
They could also print “You’re just going to ignore this anyway because Thin Mints.”
re: #99 nines09
It would be a hoot if you could graft that to a stem with a root mass. You would have a nice plant and a story. Internet is full of suggestions and how to.
There are 15 of those trees a block away.
My story will be the cheap bike seat that I found in the street (in the bike lane) that my friend likes better than the $75 Terry saddle (that I bought for $15). for the bike I fixed up for her
I’ll take the Terry.
re: #51 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That’s a war they do not want to start. It will not end well for them.
They already lost to the BTS Army.
re: #92 Charles Johnson
Mexico got their border back?
re: #66 wrenchwench
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re: #106 silverdolphin
Texas’ standoff with the feds in Eagle Pass is igniting calls for secession and fears of violence
It will only last until the election. Its whole purpose is cynically political.
Like caravans.
re: #54 nines09
They’ve had Rush and right wing hate AM radio along with Fox feeding and watering them for over 50 fucking years.
They bloomed.
Isn’t it beautiful?
Trump loves them, and they love him.
Public education has been going to hell in a handbasket since the 80’s starting under Reagan, under Bush it turned into drilling kids to score well on standardized tests to keep the schools funded.
That has also produced a generation of idiots
Florida is running out of teachers because they have banned teaching anything that might offend Christian Fundamentalist sensiblities.
re: #111 Ace Rothstein
Mexico got their border back?
AFAIK, the border still exists in the same place it was when originally established. What, then, are you MAGAt freaks trying to take back?
re: #106 silverdolphin
Texas’ standoff with the feds in Eagle Pass is igniting calls for secession and fears of violence
It will only last until the election. Its whole purpose is cynically political.
It’s a point of pride for them.
In Uvalde, evidence shows that Border Patrol is the only effective law enforcement in the state. And it’s Federal. Many Texans want to take Border Patrol down a notch.
re: #75 Joe Bacon ✅
When they are put in the freezer and you take them one at a time…Taste Bud Nirvana…
One at a time? who are you kidding…
Smol
TINY NOODLE THIEF pic.twitter.com/VueeqKrNjW
— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) January 30, 2024
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My kids were in the middle of that “No Child Left Behind” crap. Nice idea that went to hell in heartbeat. Study to test well. My children were fortunate enough to have caring teachers for the most part, and my wife took no shit from no one.
Some kids get no help from home or supposed peers.
My oldest boy, when we changed school districts was tagged as a “remedial reader” by a teacher and was going to get screwed. My wife went in and asked to see what they were teaching.
It was see spot run BS. My kid was reading at high school level in grade 3. He was bored out of his mind.
My wife told the teacher to get a high school book. My kid was there. Patrick read it. Teacher was stunned. He went in the gifted program.
re: #106 silverdolphin
Texas’ standoff with the feds in Eagle Pass is igniting calls for secession and fears of violence
It will only last until the election. Its whole purpose is cynically political.
President Biden should mock them. Secede? Where are they going to go, Russia?
re: #120 Eclectic Cyborg
Which border? Canada? Mexico? North Dakota/South Dakota?
re: #122 Ace Rothstein
Or the Mason-Dixon line.
December 28, 2023:
Texas GOP rejects ballot question asking if state should secede
keranews.org
Even the Texas GOP knows actual secession is a loser issue for them. Huffing and puffing about it plays well.
“Rasmussen Reports found that about 1 in 3 of those it polled believed that Texas has the right to secede from the United States, although only 18% would support secession and 75% would oppose secession.”
en.wikipedia.org.
re: #125 jaunte
Even the Texas GOP knows actual secession is a loser issue for them. Huffing and puffing about it plays well.
It just makes just a great thing to hyperventilate about.
“bye lol” seems to be by far the best response
re: #105 Nerdy Fish
Probably worse. Disney sticks to the threat of its legal firepower, and uses its army of lawyers to rewrite the law in its favor. Swifties ascribe to no such niceties.
I can’t see Switfties committing violence.
re: #116 wrenchwench
It’s a point of pride for them.
In Uvalde, evidence shows that Border Patrol is the only effective law enforcement in the state. And it’s Federal. Many Texans want to take Border Patrol down a notch.
Wait. I thought they loved border control and ICE.
Don’t expect Youtube ad changes anytime soon.
re: #128 Vicious Babushka
I can’t see Switfties committing violence.
But 267,000,000 Swifts posting mean tweets? That I can see.
re: #128 Vicious Babushka
I can’t see Switfties committing violence.
Their words alone will slay. Absolutely cutting. Snowflakes don’t have a chance against smart kids.
re: #119 nines09
My kids were in the middle of that “No Child Left Behind” crap. Nice idea that went to hell in heartbeat. Study to test well. My children were fortunate enough to have caring teachers for the most part, and my wife took no shit from no one.
Some kids get no help from home or supposed peers.
My oldest boy, when we changed school districts was tagged as a “remedial reader” by a teacher and was going to get screwed. My wife went in and asked to see what hey were teaching.
It was see spot run BS. My kid was reading at high school level in grade 3. He was bored out of his mind.
My wife told the teacher to get a high school book. My kid was there. Patrick read it. Teacher was stunned. He went in the gifted program.
We didn’t have gifted programs. I just simply read anything I could get my hands on, snuck in to the chem storage room and performed extra dangerous experiments and so forth (damn near burned the school down after lighting a small sample of hand mixed thermite with a strip of magnesium. Thankfully the key word here is small and it burned out before spreading out of the sink because I learned there was no stopping that s&it.).
re: #105 Nerdy Fish
Probably worse. Disney sticks to the threat of its legal firepower, and uses its army of lawyers to rewrite the law in its favor. Swifties ascribe to no such niceties.
Swifties have two things: their votes, and the votes of those they know. I suspect quite a few of them will be able to talk to their parents in ways no one else would be able to.
re: #40 Charles Johnson
Trump has also privately claimed that […] he has more committed fans than she does
Probably true. More of Trump’s fans will have been committed than Swift’s.
What?
re: #131 sagehen
But 267,000,000 Swifts posting mean tweets? That I can see.
And imagine if they start doing what the K-pop kids were doing during Trump’s time in office.
re: #135 Vicious Babushka
Tesla fired Onle Skum
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aaawwwwwwww. Sleazy E took a hit up to $55 billion…couldn’t happen to a more deserving prick!
re: #67 Belafon
They were talking about Musk’s thing on GMA this morning, but also pointed out other companies that already had some real success, including an implant to help one guy walk, and another that allowed a woman to control an avatar on a screen to talk to her husband for the first time in years.
These, BTW, are only solvable with machine learning.
Elon Musk alleges Neuralink completed its first human trial implant
Apparently at this point it’s only “Musk alleges” as Neurolink hasn’t confirmed. I imagine the Neurolink PR folks had their well-thought-out announcement plans and confetti bombs undermined. Besides Neuralink there are a plethora of other start-ups in BCI (brain computer interface) including Guger Technologies, Synchron, Braingate, many more (some of which might be even more than jumping on the Silicon Valley funding bandwagon)
re: #125 jaunte
Even the Texas GOP knows actual secession is a loser issue for them. Huffing and puffing about it plays well.
“Rasmussen Reports found that about 1 in 3 of those it polled believed that Texas has the right to secede from the United States, although only 18% would support secession and 75% would oppose secession.”
of those ‘1 in 3’, none could explain exactly how it could be accomplished given that the constitution is silent on the issue.
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they dont want to secede
- they want to do be left alone to do whatever they want, without interference
- they dont want any oversight , but they still want the money they get from washington
- they dont want to pay any taxes
- they dont want federalism at all
and they still want all the benefits of the Union. They dont want to disturb any of the structure that holds us together.
that’s why talk about borders, visas, banking, coast guard, losing the military bases, losing federal funding, federal highways, ad infinito are met with “huh? why would we have to do any of that?”
re: #129 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Wait. I thought they loved border control and ICE.
That was under Bush, the Texan.
re: #138 Joe Bacon ✅
aaawwwwwwww. Sleazy E took a hit up to $55 billion…couldn’t happen to a more deserving prick!
and here tfg cant even manage to get to a single billion
Corporations that make billions every year but continually push the envelope (even alienating formerly loyal users) in order to chase EVEN MOAR GROWTH are really seeming unhinged these days. US values are so screwed up.
re: #98 Egregious Philbin
I have a rare plant, passiflora azironica, Arizona passionfruit. When I grow it on my porch, it goes nuts, goes along the trellis under the roof for about 10 feet, and gets very thick. I get tons of fruit, its a small green passion fruit, tastes like guava. Here is the problem, they die after 2 years, so I saved seeds. I planted a ton last year, but only one germinated, I put it outside about 2 weeks before we hit 110 degrees for 30 straight days, it had no chance. Also, the caterpillars can destroy a young plant quickly, when its big, no problem. I have a few that grew as volunteers in other places, so I clipped some leaves and have it in a jar on the sill. Almost to the point where I’ll put it in some rockwool and dirt and get it rooting before transplanting again…
passiflora reproduces well if you just plant the entire fruit instead of only the seeds.
Volunteers result from fallen fruit left to its own devices and Mother Nature’s whims.
re: #141 Dangerman
One in three not thinking it through.
re: #130 KingKenrod
YouTube continues to grow in the “streaming” sector, a business category that will soon be demanding even more consolidation of the major and minor players.
Possible things to happen this year:
1) WBD bought by Comcast, or split between Comcast and Amazon Prime;
2) AppleTV+ buys Paramount+ .
YouTube is likely to be dominant in the video serving sector until Alphabet is broken up by some future government.
re: #145 Charles Johnson
Corporations that make billions every year but continually push the envelope (even alienating formerly loyal users) in order to chase EVEN MOAR GROWTH are really seeming unhinged these days. US values are so screwed up.
Whenever the dam breaks, and markets go into biggest declines since the Great Depression, whoever is in office will be blamed.
And that could bring about the fascist rise in America that Trump cannot accomplish on his own.
re: #146 Backwoods Sleuth
This one is a little weird. Anyway, I have a few stalks with roots, I’ll get them going. I can’t transplant the volunteer in my front yard, its wrapped around a volunteer of some desert tree. One volunteer came from the pool’s backwash hose, the other from under the rain spout, the big plant I had dropped fruit in the gutter it was wrapped around.
re: #106 silverdolphin
Texas’ standoff with the feds in Eagle Pass is igniting calls for secession and fears of violence
It will only last until the election. Its whole purpose is cynically political.
It will only last as long until businesses are fed up with shipment disruptions.
re: #153 Backwoods Sleuth
I’ve said this before, those folks going down to the Valley will hang out and yell at the river for a day or 2. Then they will get bored and head to the beach at South Padre where they will spend their money and bolster the economy.
re: #128 Vicious Babushka
I can’t see Switfties committing violence.
I don’t know… I can see the “Anyone who mistreats Tay Tay makes me Cray Cray” crowd loading up their Hello Kitty AK’s and girding for battle and waxing the Proud Boys pretty easily.
re: #150 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Whenever the dam breaks, and markets go into biggest declines since the Great Depression, whoever is in office will be blamed.
And that could bring about the fascist rise in America that Trump cannot accomplish on his own.
that’s why the quote bottom right:
re: #145 Charles Johnson
Corporations that make billions every year but continually push the envelope (even alienating formerly loyal users) in order to chase EVEN MOAR GROWTH are really seeming unhinged these days. US values are so screwed up.
Expecting exponential growth on a planet with finite resources is the root cause of that insanity.
re: #156 Patricia Kayden
This also works very well for purported GOP concerns about government spending. With an extra side of budget-busting tax cuts only for the rich.
re: #103 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Very small plane. I don’t know if it could kill more than one person without landing on someone.
Van’s RV-6
This is a two seater kit plane. Interestingly enough, it is also built in Iran on a regular production line as the Aviation Industries of Iran AVA-202.
re: #122 Ace Rothstein
Miami International Airport.
The anti-trans bill was argued in front of the Texas Supreme Court and one of the justices was basically arguing that because he’s not going to rule against it because it’s the people’s will since they voted for the legislatures who voted for it.
re: #160 Patricia Kayden
You post the best stuff!!
re: #124 jaunte
December 28, 2023:
Texas GOP rejects ballot question asking if state should secede
keranews.org
lololol
But state party leaders say the group submitted the signatures after the Dec. 10 deadline, and that most of the signatures were invalid.
Texas GOP chairman Matt Rinaldi wrote in an open letter that only about 8,300 of the purported 139,000 signatures the Texas Nationalist Movement collected were in the petition signer’s own handwriting, and the rest electronically submitted.
“For these reasons, the voter petitions delivered by the Texas Nationalist Movement on December 11 are rejected as untimely and, even if they had been timely submitted, do not contain the required 97,709 valid signatures to place a matter on the 2024 Republican Primary ballot,” Rinaldi wrote.
re: #151 Egregious Philbin
This one is a little weird. Anyway, I have a few stalks with roots, I’ll get them going. I can’t transplant the volunteer in my front yard, its wrapped around a volunteer of some desert tree. One volunteer came from the pool’s backwash hose, the other from under the rain spout, the big plant I had dropped fruit in the gutter it was wrapped around.
here’s what they look like here in eastern Kentucky. I have them growing everywhere.