Next Gen Prog Rock: Another Sky, “The Pain”

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Featuring the extraordinary voice of Catrin Vincent.

Another Sky ‘The Pain’ Out Now: anothersky.lnk.to

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Director: Darina @darinafilms
Executive producer: Theo Broughton @theovision
Producers: Darina & Robert Mcdougal @darinafilms @robert_mcdougal
Starring: Another Sky @anothersky
Director of Photography: Robert Mcdougal @robert_mcdougal
Steadicam & Camera Operator: Adam Opie @steadiopie
1st AC: Chris Gibson @chris_t_gibson
2nd AC: Alex Wright @alexwcaptures
Gaffer: Roberto Colapietro @robertocolapietro
Make Up And Grooming: Jo Leversuch @joleversuch
Colourist: Anna Barsukova @anaginative
Edit, Art direction, Styling: Darina @darinafilms
Kit Hire: Focus Canning @focuscanning

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306 comments
1
Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:41:30pm

The more I listen the more I like Catrin’s voice. Thank you for posting this.

2
Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:45:04pm

I’m really not trying to come off as bigoted here, but I noticed a news article in the previous thread mentioned: “the 2SLGBTQ community”.

I had to look up what the heck that meant.

And I find myself wondering why we can’t just stick with LGBTQ+ instead of tacking on more letters and numbers to the term.

3
Decatur Deb  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:50:07pm

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m really not trying to come off as bigoted here, but I noticed a news article in the previous thread mentioned: “the 2SLGBTQ community”.

I had to look up what the heck that meant.

And I find myself wondering why we can’t just stick with LGBTQ+ instead of tacking on more letters and numbers to the term.

Splitters and Lumpers.

4
Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:52:36pm

Mastodon

5
Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:55:01pm

When I think Prog rock I think Genesis, which is really before my time, but then the soundtrack of my youth was Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Mike and the Mechanics…

6
Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:58:12pm

Oh Joy!

More Rain is on the way!

7
TedStriker  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:59:12pm

re: #5 Shropshire Slasher

When I think Prog rock I think Genesis, which is really before my time, but then the soundtrack of my youth was Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Mike and the Mechanics…

Genesis - Duchess (Official Audio)

8
Charles  Mar 1, 2024 • 4:59:18pm

Another Sky has been around since 2017 but I just discovered them. They’re great. What a singer.

9
Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:02:20pm

In case anyone thought Ben Sasse was a good guy.

Nope.

Ben Sasse Is DeSantis Hatchet Man as UF Fires All DEI Staff

Ron DeSantis and his stupid war on woke has axed the entire DEI staff at the University of Florida.

newrepublic.com

The University of Florida nixed its entire diversity, equity, and inclusion staff on Friday, thanks to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s wingman in the GOP’s war on education, Ben Sasse.

Sasse, the former Republican senator from Nebraska turned university president, terminated 13 full-time positions and 15 administrative appointments for faculty members, a university spokesperson told Axios.

According to an administrative memo obtained by the the campus’s student paper, The Alligator, DEI staff would be fired effective immediately, with severances tantamount to 12 weeks of pay. Additionally, $5 million would be redirected from DEI programs and placed in a “faculty recruitment fund” to be administered by the university’s Office of the Provost however it deems fit.

“Florida is where DEI goes to die …” DeSantis coldly wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, shortly after the decision became public.

10
A Mom Anon  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:09:04pm

Howdy Strangers! I have missed so much and I probably will never catch up. Life has been a weird mess and I just haven’t been able to stop by much. I miss this place and the people. Sending hugs to anyone who needs one and lots of wishes for good health, finding kindness and joy and hope and peace-a place to exhale and just, be. I am hoping to be able to stop by and hang out more often, life has just been a giant enduring shitshow, I could go on for hours. If you are friends with me on facebook, you probably have read the saga or some of it. Messy and weird and stressful is a good summary.

11
Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:11:09pm

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Dangerman  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:12:02pm

re: #9 Joe Bacon ✅

In case anyone thought Ben Sasse was a good guy.

Nope.

Ben Sasse Is DeSantis Hatchet Man as UF Fires All DEI Staff

Ron DeSantis and his stupid war on woke has axed the entire DEI staff at the University of Florida.

newrepublic.com

The University of Florida nixed its entire diversity, equity, and inclusion staff on Friday, thanks to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s wingman in the GOP’s war on education, Ben Sasse.

Sasse, the former Republican senator from Nebraska turned university president, terminated 13 full-time positions and 15 administrative appointments for faculty members, a university spokesperson told Axios.

According to an administrative memo obtained by the the campus’s student paper, The Alligator, DEI staff would be fired effective immediately, with severances tantamount to 12 weeks of pay. Additionally, $5 million would be redirected from DEI programs and placed in a “faculty recruitment fund” to be administered by the university’s Office of the Provost however it deems fit.

“Florida is where DEI goes to die …” DeSantis coldly wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, shortly after the decision became public.

Florida is gonna be where students go to school somewhere else

13
JC1  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:12:26pm

re: #9 Joe Bacon ✅

In case anyone thought Ben Sasse was a good guy.

Nope.

Ben Sasse Is DeSantis Hatchet Man as UF Fires All DEI Staff

Ron DeSantis and his stupid war on woke has axed the entire DEI staff at the University of Florida.

newrepublic.com

The University of Florida nixed its entire diversity, equity, and inclusion staff on Friday, thanks to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s wingman in the GOP’s war on education, Ben Sasse.

Sasse, the former Republican senator from Nebraska turned university president, terminated 13 full-time positions and 15 administrative appointments for faculty members, a university spokesperson told Axios.

According to an administrative memo obtained by the the campus’s student paper, The Alligator, DEI staff would be fired effective immediately, with severances tantamount to 12 weeks of pay. Additionally, $5 million would be redirected from DEI programs and placed in a “faculty recruitment fund” to be administered by the university’s Office of the Provost however it deems fit.

“Florida is where DEI goes to die …” DeSantis coldly wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, shortly after the decision became public.

Stupid/petty act. Fewer than 20 people. Most university administration departments should be chainsawed in half or less. They’ve become a bloated mess of nonsense.

14
silverdolphin  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:13:42pm

I have found that the best way to stay on top of Progressive Rock of all sorts is Progarchives.com

Lots of reviews from the community with a worthwhile rating system. It has helped introduce me to all sorts of newer bands simply by searching “Best of 2023” etc.. I check a band out first on Apple Music and if I really like them, I’ll put up money and buy the album so they get a little more cash. It is how I found Neal Morse, Steve Wilson and Transatlantic. The most recent one is The Songs and Tales of Airoea Book 1 by the Chronicles of Father Robin.

And yes, I already had most of their top 100 best of all time. Love my prog.

15
sizzzzlerz  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:15:05pm

re: #12 Dangerman

Florida is gonna be where students go to school somewhere else

That’s fine. They won’t have faculty anyway

16
Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:22:52pm

re: #15 sizzzzlerz

That’s fine. They won’t have faculty anyway

Why Florida colleges faculty will be the cream of the crop from Bob Jones University, Liberty University, Pepperdine, Oral Roberts University, Urbana, Geneva…and especially Hillsdale!

17
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:27:36pm

re: #12 Dangerman

Florida is gonna be where students go to school somewhere else

It’ll be interesting when schools like Harvard, MIT, Stamford, et al, refuse students from FL colleges and universities.

18
Jay C  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:33:12pm

re: #17 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’ll be interesting when schools like Harvard, MIT, Stamford, et al, refuse students from FL colleges and universities.

And what few lawyers the FL system have left get sicced on said institutions for “discriminating against conservatives”…etc.

(though those actions will most-likely be “tried” via overheated editorials on RW TV networks)

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:35:03pm

re: #16 Joe Bacon ✅

Why Florida colleges faculty will be the cream of the crop from Bob Jones University, Liberty University, Pepperdine, Oral Roberts University, Urbana, Geneva…and especially Hillsdale!

At least they’ll always have football

20
Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:36:46pm

E Jean is putting the screws on Orange Foolius!

E. Jean Carroll drops ‘one week to pay’ threat on Trump as he scrambles for cash

Early Friday morning, writer E. Jean Carroll announced for all the world to see that Donald Trump has yet to cough up the $83.3 million he owes her after she defeated him in two separate civil trials.

Taking to X, Carroll dropped a message to the former president with a simple message that Trump has “one week to pay” on her social media platform, while also linking to a Fortune summary of his courtroom loss to her as well as his other courtroom financial setbacks that have him scrambling to come up with almost a half billion dollars quickly.

rawstory.com

21
Charles  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:37:31pm

re: #20 Joe Bacon ✅

Time to sell a building or two.

22
Charles  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:38:16pm

He’s a sociopath so it takes a lot, but Trump’s got to feel the walls closing in a bit now.

23
jaunte  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:39:18pm

Selling at a loss would make him a loser.

24
Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:39:46pm

Well this might be the starter…bout half a million…

25
Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:41:04pm

Please let her get this!

26
JC1  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:43:26pm

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Charles  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:44:24pm

Not a fan of McKay Coppins, first because his name is “McKay” and I know that probably makes me a bad judgmental person, but also because he wrote that article lecturing liberals about the need to go to Trump rallies and see what goes on there, as if he just fucking discovered it himself. Yes, McKay, some of us have BEEN knowing what goes on there, welcome to the party.

28
jaunte  Mar 1, 2024 • 5:54:37pm

@thielman.bsky.social

I’m sure it’s fine

29
darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:02:23pm

Mastodon

30
A Mom Anon  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:04:17pm

re: #28 jaunte

I fully expect to see one of those in the yard soon.

31
Charles  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:07:09pm

re: #29 darthstar

His family would never forgive him if he didn’t put the Emmy in there.

32
CleverToad  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:08:50pm

re: #10 A Mom Anon

Howdy Strangers! I have missed so much and I probably will never catch up. Life has been a weird mess and I just haven’t been able to stop by much. I miss this place and the people. Sending hugs to anyone who needs one and lots of wishes for good health, finding kindness and joy and hope and peace-a place to exhale and just, be. I am hoping to be able to stop by and hang out more often, life has just been a giant enduring shitshow, I could go on for hours. If you are friends with me on facebook, you probably have read the saga or some of it. Messy and weird and stressful is a good summary.

Hello and a hug! We miss you too
Glad you drove by, here’s hoping your news will improve someday soon

33
Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:20:31pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle is armed with a sock full of spaghetti.

Click to Reveal

If you paint yourself into a corner early enough, the birbie will come and perch on your shoulder.

Wordle 987 3/6

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SibData: 3,3,4,5,5

34
Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:34:51pm

re: #19 sizzzzlerz

At least they’ll always have football

Well Florida Colleges need Football and Jesus. They’re made for each other!

Dropkick Me, Jesus

35
Cheechako  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:37:10pm

Damn, if you can’t trust Oprah, who can you trust?

Oprah Winfrey leaving WeightWatchers board after revealing she used weight-loss medication

36
Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:39:12pm

re: #35 Cheechako

Damn, if you can’t trust Oprah, who can you trust?

Oprah Winfrey leaving WeightWatchers board after revealing she used weight-loss medication

LMAO when my main Kaiser Dr said patients were asking him to prescribe…”OPRAHZEMIC”…

37
jaunte  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:39:15pm

@roadside.xor.blue
*
1m
old diner (valentine), 615 n. main street, eureka, kansas, 1979

Purkeypile’s the name. Doyle Purkeypile.
shalexp.com

38
darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:39:19pm

re: #31 Charles Johnson

His family would never forgive him if he didn’t put the Emmy in there.

Then show them off! Be proud of your accomplishments! Having one below eye level so you barely see the top of the globe is silly.

39
Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:45:58pm

My first beautiful baby will be 47(!) years old tomorrow.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:47:01pm

Exquisite…….

Want to Know

41
Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:48:02pm

His arrival was foretold on ancient murals.

42
The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 1, 2024 • 6:48:09pm

re: #35 Cheechako

You trust Dr Oz, Dr Phil, John of God, Mike Warnke….

43
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:00:02pm

re: #29 darthstar

Not to be a dick here but if I won an Emmy I’d pick that fucker up and bring it with me into to every room I entered! Just sayin’.

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darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:03:42pm

Mastodon

45
darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:04:36pm

re: #43 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Not to be a dick here but if I won an Emmy I’d pick that fucker up and bring it with me into to every room I entered! Just sayin’.

Exactly. Id hold it in one hand and wave it around when I was emphasizing a point.

46
darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:05:55pm

re: #42 The Ghost of a Flea

You trust Dr Oz, Dr Phil, John of God, Mike Warnke….

I trust Dr. John

Dr. John - Right Place, Wrong Time (Concert, Part 1/9) | Live at Jazz Open Stuttgart 1995

47
darthstar  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:06:56pm

re: #46 darthstar

I trust Dr. John

[Embedded content]

Got to see him with the Neville Brothers a few years before he passed. Good times.

48
mmmirele  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:07:12pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Not a fan of McKay Coppins, first because his name is “McKay” and I know that probably makes me a bad judgmental person, but also because he wrote that article lecturing liberals about the need to go to Trump rallies and see what goes on there, as if he just fucking discovered it himself. Yes, McKay, some of us have BEEN knowing what goes on there, welcome to the party.

Well, hmm. I know a woman first name of “Hinckley” and it’s probably for the same reason that McKay’s first name is “McKay”—it’s a prominent last name among Mormons. And he is Mormon; he was the editor of the BYU newspaper when he went to BYU.

I also learned that he’s only 37, so if I ever have to lecture him again, I will give him the whole “I am old enough to be your mother, McKay, I’ve lived longer,” etc. speech before I rip him a new one.

49
jaunte  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:10:15pm

re: #43 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

They should issue them in a medallion form.

50
mmmirele  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:13:13pm

re: #43 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Not to be a dick here but if I won an Emmy I’d pick that fucker up and bring it with me into to every room I entered! Just sayin’.

About 40 years ago, I was invited to a viewing party of slides a woman took when she went on a bike ride around China (so yeah, about 1985ish). The guy who owned the house, he had an Emmy on a shelf and I congratulated him upon it. “This?” he said. “It’s a regional Emmy.” He wasn’t all that impressed. And when your local TV station touts how many Emmys they’ve won, they’re regional Emmys and the competition is, well, *different*.

51
Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:19:19pm

Start at 8 pm, sawcut, chip 1” under first mat of rebar, sandblast, preheat, pour fast setting concrete, post heat and by 5 am you have a long lasting patch.

52
Romantic Heretic  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:22:28pm

re: #4 Backwoods Sleuth

Humans are always looking for excuses.

53
Shropshire Slasher  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:23:58pm

Unless they throw some asphalt in there to mix things up for you.

54
jaunte  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:27:50pm

“…Charges were dropped against Jhoan Boada, one of the migrants arrested in connection to the Times Square melee in late January between migrants and two police officers, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced Friday.

Boada, 22, became the face of right-wing backlash after he was photographed flashing twin birds at reporters and insisting he was innocent as he left his arraignment in late January.

A “thorough and diligent investigation” cleared Boada in the case, the DA’s office said in a statement. “Jhoan Boada has been exonerated as a participant in this assault,” the statement said.
…..

His image, splashed on headlines across the country, became a symbol for right-leaning Americans of the dangers of immigration and sanctuary city laws.

It drew the anti-migrant fury of Americans from Texas to Great Neck, L.I. Mazi Pilip, a Republican who lost her special election bid to fill George Santos’s seat in Congress from Queens and Nassau Count, posted a picture of Boada and labeled him a “thug.”
nydailynews.com

55
Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:36:27pm

I hadn’t heard the details of what happened to Mitch McConnell’s wife sister-in-law:

The death earlier this month of Foremost Group CEO Angela Chao, the sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, is currently under “criminal investigation,” a Texas sheriff’s office said Thursday.

Chao, 50, was found dead shortly after midnight on Feb. 11 after being pulled out of a car that had gone into a pond on a private ranch in Johnson City, Texas, about 40 miles from Austin.

….

“This incident was not a typical accident,” the Blanco County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday.

“Although the preliminary investigation indicated this was an unfortunate accident, the Sheriff’s Office is still investigating this accident as a criminal matter until they have sufficient evidence to rule out criminal activity,” the letter said.

Since Chao’s death remains the subject of a criminal probe, the Blanco County Sheriff’s public information officer told the attorney general that reports, 911 logs, audio and video evidence as well as other material should not yet be released to media outlets that requested them, including CNBC.

cnbc.com

There are plenty of possible conspiracy theories, including a message sent to Mitch.

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mmmirele  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:38:14pm

re: #51 Shropshire Slasher

[Embedded content]

Start at 8 pm, sawcut, chip 1” under first mat of rebar, sandblast, preheat, pour fast setting concrete, post heat and by 5 am you have a long lasting patch.

Where is this at? Interstate, local freeway, big 6 lane highway that carries 100K cars a day?

57
mmmirele  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:39:03pm

re: #55 Belafon

I hadn’t heard the details of what happened to Mitch McConnell’s wife:

cnbc.com

There are plenty of possible conspiracy theories, including a message sent to Mitch.

Not Mitch’s wife (Elaine), it’s Mitch’s sister-in-law (Angela). But it still looks weird.

58
garzooma  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:41:06pm

re: #31 Charles Johnson

His family would never forgive him if he didn’t put the Emmy in there.

The Simpsons just had a nasty take on Emmys:

fb.watch

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:42:54pm

re: #57 mmmirele

Not Mitch’s wife (Elaine), it’s Mitch’s sister-in-law (Angela). But it still looks weird.

Thanks, I meant sister-in-law, but I’m also talking to my parents.

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:44:24pm

re: #47 darthstar

Got to see him with the Neville Brothers a few years before he passed. Good times.

Saw him with BB King and Little Feat. One of the best concerts ever.

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TedStriker  Mar 1, 2024 • 7:56:15pm

re: #55 Belafon

I hadn’t heard the details of what happened to Mitch McConnell’s wife:

cnbc.com

There are plenty of possible conspiracy theories, including a message sent to Mitch.

Elaine Chao is Mitch’s wife; this was her sister.

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EPR-radar  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:03:43pm

Regarding the comment from downstairs about the science podcast that tries to be apolitical and therefore starts drifting into both sides territory.

Science has always had political implications, despite the ideals of the field, but in the US these days it is real simple — Republicans are against science because science is always fundamentally subversive to the kind of repressive regime Republicans want to force on the nation.

In particular, the idea of paying attention to objective reality, as is required for science, and as should be done for all policy-making, is anathema to Republicans.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:03:47pm

There’s a massive fire at a salvage yard in Garland, Tx:

Massive fire happening at Grand Prairie salvage yard on Friday

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:05:07pm

re: #17 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’ll be interesting when schools like Harvard, MIT, Stamford, et al, refuse students from FL colleges and universities.

If the students do well on the GREs and LSAT’s and have good grades, they will likely be accepted, especially if they are applying in fields (such as the hard sciences) which are not under attack by the DeSantis policies.

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EPR-radar  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:05:49pm

re: #63 Belafon

Almost a literal landfill fire. Republican leaders should be rounded up and dragged through that smelly mess to the accompaniment of “this is what your policies are” jeers from rudely energetic activists.

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EPR-radar  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:06:48pm

re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter

If the students do well on the GREs and LSAT’s and have good grades, they will likely be accepted, especially if they are applying in fields (such as the hard sciences) which are not under attack by the DeSantis policies.

LOL at any field remaining immune from the DeSantis Office of Propaganda.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:08:34pm

re: #20 Joe Bacon ✅

E Jean is putting the screws on Orange Foolius!

E. Jean Carroll drops ‘one week to pay’ threat on Trump as he scrambles for cash

Early Friday morning, writer E. Jean Carroll announced for all the world to see that Donald Trump has yet to cough up the $83.3 million he owes her after she defeated him in two separate civil trials.

Taking to X, Carroll dropped a message to the former president with a simple message that Trump has “one week to pay” on her social media platform, while also linking to a Fortune summary of his courtroom loss to her as well as his other courtroom financial setbacks that have him scrambling to come up with almost a half billion dollars quickly.

rawstory.com

Alex Jones hasn’t paid a cent of his penalty and the verdict was imposed in August 2022. Let’s see how successful Carroll will be at getting a cent from Trump.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:10:06pm

re: #67 Hecuba’s daughter

Alex Jones hasn’t paid a cent of his penalty and the verdict was imposed in August 2022. Let’s see how successful Carroll will be at getting a cent from Trump.

I saw a lawyer on Bluesky opine that her estate might be able to collect.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:13:42pm

A security guard was robbed at gunpoint at a bank, and the thief also took the guards pants to take the gun so he couldn’t retaliate.

wfaa.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:20:40pm

re: #68 Nerdy Fish

I saw a lawyer on Bluesky opine that her estate might be able to collect.

Many years hence?

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:29:43pm
A Texas district court judge on Friday temporarily halted a demand from the state attorney general’s office for an LGBTQ advocacy group to hand over information related to its support of transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care.

PFLAG National, a nonprofit group that supports LGBTQ people and their families, sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) late Wednesday in Travis County District Court, arguing that the demand from Paxton’s office was “a clear and unmistakable overreach.”

thehill.com

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EPR-radar  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:32:28pm

re: #71 Belafon

I see that Texas is at the “papers, please” part of its speed run of fascism. Except that no real Republican would bother being polite about it.

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ckkatz  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:34:29pm

Washington Post had a couple of amusing foodie articles today.

The first article finally asks the question I often pose when seeing WaPo food articles:

KFC’s Chizza is a chicken-pizza mashup with one looming question: Why?

The second article ties into an LGF discussion a few days ago. And from my vantage point is apparently a new food trend. At least hereabouts.

It also answers my college friends’ jokes about “beer floats”.

WaPo Article Gift Link: A shop selling booze-infused ice cream is opening in Chinatown. I tried it.

The shop is D.C.’s first “ice cream barlour,” a franchise of the New York-born Tipsy Scoop, which will open two blocks from Capital One Arena on March 2 and offer eight alcoholic flavors of ice cream and sorbet, including a D.C. signature, Cherry Blossom Old Fashioned, made with Hatozaki Finest Japanese whisky. Other flavors include Cake Batter Vodka Martini, Spiked Mint Chocolate Chip and Vanilla Bean Bourbon.

And, yes, you must be at least 21 to partake in the alcohol-infused scoops, though it will also serve four nonalcoholic flavors.

Like its original New York storefronts, the D.C. location will also offer ice cream cocktails — think a root beer float, but with liquor — as well as regular cocktails, flights, sundaes, takeaway pints and ice cream cakes (though you have to order the cakes at least five days before pickup). One scoop will go for $6.50, with cocktails and flights selling for $16 each, sundaes for $18 and a pint for $16.50. It will also offer beer, wine and hard seltzer in the event you’d like to skip the ice cream altogether.

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:38:34pm

re: #73 ckkatz

inliterature.net

Cannery Row; Beer Milkshake

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ckkatz  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:49:57pm

re: #74 BeachDem

inliterature.net

Cannery Row; Beer Milkshake

TIL - That there are indeed recipes for “Beer Milkshakes”.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 1, 2024 • 8:54:34pm

Shit gets real when you’re under oath:

. . . Texts Show Witness Readily Helped Build a Case to Disqualify Trump Prosecutors
Terrence Bradley was a reluctant witness in court, but text messages show he was eager to help an effort to disqualify Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney.

Before exposing the romance in her Jan. 8 filing, Ms. Merchant asked Mr. Bradley in a text: “Do you think it started before she hired him?”
“Absolutely,” Mr. Bradley replied, adding that the romance had started when the two served as local judges, before Ms. Willis’s election as district attorney in 2020.

But on the witness stand this week, Mr. Bradley said he had only been “speculating” about the timing. Though Mr. Wade had told him about the relationship, he said on the stand, he did not have direct knowledge about when it began.

The text messages — some of which Ms. Merchant described in court after Mr. Bradley did not provide the testimony she was hoping for — show that Mr. Bradley was trading messages with Ms. Merchant about the prosecutors and their romance as long ago as September. Mr. Bradley made suggestions about who might know about the romance and be able to corroborate it. He encouraged Ms. Merchant to subpoena members of Ms. Willis’s security detail and other members of her staff. . .

(no paywall)

nytimes.com

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jeffreyw  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:00:35pm

Let Sue play the blues for you.

YouTube

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:05:49pm

Oh shit…

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Republican candidate Steve Garvey are now in a statistical tie in California’s nonpartisan Senate primary, polling released Friday shows.

The poll from the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at the University of California, Berkeley found Garvey with 27 percent support and Schiff at 25 percent.

even worse when it comes to the election for the remaining part of Feinstein’s term

Garvey boasts the lead in the partial term race, according to the Berkeley IGS poll, with 29 percent to Schiff’s 23 percent, followed by Porter at 20 percent. That boost appears to be due to fewer Republican names on the partial-term ballot compared to the full-term ballot, the poll notes.

Please the last thing we need is a Republican Senator who can’t keep Mr. Twinkee in his pants…

ktla.com

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:06:39pm

So got back from Dune Part 2.

Stunning. Heartbreaking. Horrifying.

Click to Reveal

Zendaya as Chani owns this film. It’s a devastating critique of colonialism, resource extraction, messianic certainty and religious fundamentalism. It pulls no punches and leaves no easy answers beyond the realization that power corrupts, and the oppressed all too often become the oppressors. Practically demands a second viewing IMHO, but I was an emotional wreck upon leaving tonight.

Galadriel refused the One Ring. Paul grabs it with both hands and it’s apocalyptic. Jim Jones with nuclear warheads. (Yes, House Atreides atomics are baaaaack)

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:07:07pm

re: #78 Joe Bacon ✅

Oh shit…

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Republican candidate Steve Garvey are now in a statistical tie in California’s nonpartisan Senate primary, polling released Friday shows.

The poll from the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at the University of California, Berkeley found Garvey with 27 percent support and Schiff at 25 percent.

even worse when it comes to the election for the remaining part of Feinstein’s term

Garvey boasts the lead in the partial term race, according to the Berkeley IGS poll, with 29 percent to Schiff’s 23 percent, followed by Porter at 20 percent. That boost appears to be due to fewer Republican names on the partial-term ballot compared to the full-term ballot, the poll notes.

Please the last thing we need is a Republican Senator who can’t keep Mr. Twinkee in his pants…

ktla.com

I think both cases end up with runoffs.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:08:42pm

re: #79 Scottish Dragon

So got back from Dune Part 2.

Stunning. Heartbreaking. Horrifying.

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It’s all why there’s going to be a third film.

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Captain Ron  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:10:42pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:10:43pm

re: #76 BeenHereAwhile

Shit gets real when you’re under oath:

… Texts Show Witness Readily Helped Build a Case to Disqualify Trump Prosecutors
Terrence Bradley was a reluctant witness in court, but text messages show he was eager to help an effort to disqualify Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney.

Before exposing the romance in her Jan. 8 filing, Ms. Merchant asked Mr. Bradley in a text: “Do you think it started before she hired him?”
“Absolutely,” Mr. Bradley replied, adding that the romance had started when the two served as local judges, before Ms. Willis’s election as district attorney in 2020.

But on the witness stand this week, Mr. Bradley said he had only been “speculating” about the timing. Though Mr. Wade had told him about the relationship, he said on the stand, he did not have direct knowledge about when it began.

The text messages — some of which Ms. Merchant described in court after Mr. Bradley did not provide the testimony she was hoping for — show that Mr. Bradley was trading messages with Ms. Merchant about the prosecutors and their romance as long ago as September. Mr. Bradley made suggestions about who might know about the romance and be able to corroborate it. He encouraged Ms. Merchant to subpoena members of Ms. Willis’s security detail and other members of her staff…

(no paywall)

nytimes.com

It’s some rather bad lawyering when you find yourself berating your own “star witness” because what they’re saying on the stand doesn’t match with the text messages you failed to make the court aware of until said “witness” changed their story on.

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:11:04pm

re: #81 Belafon

It’s all why there’s going to be a third film.

Dune Messiah is even more acidly pessimistic

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William Lewis  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:12:17pm

re: #79 Scottish Dragon

So got back from Dune Part 2.

Stunning. Heartbreaking. Horrifying.

[Embedded content]

Sounds like the first tine a production understands that Paul is not a hero.

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:16:58pm

re: #85 William Lewis

Sounds like the first tine a production understands that Paul is not a hero.

Yes, I was discussing that with my spouse. Herbert thought that a populist “hero” was about the worst thing that could befall a people, and none of the previous attempts at his material got that. The 1984 version has Paul making rain fer Chrissakes.

This Paul becomes the genocidal tyrant of the books, and Timothy Chalamet sells it.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:29:21pm

re: #79 Scottish Dragon

Click to Reveal

Using Chani (Zendaya) as the voice of reason and skepticism was a great choice, IMHO.

Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha was brilliant - there were times when I thought they’d dubbed Stellan Skarsgård’s voice over his own.

And Timothée Chalamet brought the fire; his transition from seemingly reluctant hero to a fanatical Mahdi, leading the Fremen into war and launching Muad’Dib’s jihad was award-worthy, proving to one and all that he’s got some serious acting chops.

I’d say the entire cast was 100% on point and Denis Villeneuve has a masterful understanding of the source material - and the cautionary message Frank Herbert was trying to deliver.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:31:53pm

Always love how folks get it in their heads that if they checked in one a “cheap” rate, then that rate won’t go up by more than a few dollars if at all while they’re staying here. That they can check in during the middle of winter and the rate has to stay the same all through the year. I’ve had people actually ask to speak to a manager when told their rate was jumping $100-200/wk because they thought that they’d locked in that “cheap” rate.

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piratedan  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:37:47pm

re: #83 Targetpractice

If Fani Willis wasn’t a woman or a POC, ZERO of this would even be entertained as questionable

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:39:11pm

re: #83 Targetpractice

It’s some rather bad lawyering when you find yourself berating your own “star witness” because what they’re saying on the stand doesn’t match with the text messages you failed to make the court aware of until said “witness” changed their story on.

It’s why some attorneys hate to be a witness and testify at trial.

As you well know - in a court of law - the witness is the only one who has sworn to tell the truth.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:41:05pm

re: #89 piratedan

If Fani Willis wasn’t a woman or a POC, ZERO of this would even be entertained as questionable

Possibly, but Trump is now desperate enough to try anything, such as adding 1800 passes of pictures of articles to a document to try to slow a judge down, or going after a court clerk for making a donation to a judge’s campaign.

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ckkatz  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:41:24pm

Communist group disrupts Timothy Snyder’s lecture, forces evacuation

Timothy Snyder evacuated his “Hitler, Stalin, and Us” lecture on Thursday afternoon after a Communist activist group entered the classroom and would not leave.

*snip*

Around 10 demonstrators affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party showed up at the classroom in William Harkness Hall five minutes after the start of class and began shouting at Snyder while holding up signs and recording students.

*snip*

The demonstrators walked into the back of class and held up signs while Raymond Lotta, the group’s leader, declared, “No class as usual today!” Lotta called on Snyder to condemn the United States for its support of Israel’s military offensive against Hamas in Gaza and accused him of “brainwashing” students with “anti-communism.”

*snip*

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William Lewis  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:42:08pm

re: #88 Targetpractice

Always love how folks get it in their heads that if they checked in one a “cheap” rate, then that rate won’t go up by more than a few dollars if at all while they’re staying here. That they can check in during the middle of winter and the rate has to stay the same all through the year. I’ve had people actually ask to speak to a manager when told their rate was jumping $100-200/wk because they thought that they’d locked in that “cheap” rate.

Our rates can vary by day of the week - they’d be very unhappy here 🤣

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:42:47pm

re: #62 EPR-radar

Science also requires thought which Republicans are also strongly against.

Unless it comes up with ways to fuck over other people.

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danarchy  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:43:51pm

re: #90 BeenHereAwhile

It’s why some attorneys hate to be a witness and testify at trial.

As you well know - in a court of law - the witness is the only one who has sworn to tell the truth.

I think in most states in order to get a license to practice law you have to take an oath to tell the truth and not mislead the court. So really all the attorneys have sworn to tell the truth as well.

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silverdolphin  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:44:35pm

re: #86 Scottish Dragon

Yes, I was discussing that with my spouse. Herbert thought that a populist “hero” was about the worst thing that could befall a people, and none of the previous attempts at his material got that. The 1984 version has Paul making rain fer Chrissakes.

This Paul becomes the genocidal tyrant of the books, and Timothy Chalamet sells it.

Villeneuve has said in interviews that Paul is not the hero. He mentioned that Herbert wrote Dune Messiah because he was shocked so many people read Dune and thought Paul was a hero. DM was written to make it explicit that he was not. Which is why Villeneuve wants to make the third one.

I was at a presentation once where Herbert said that Dune was about a Messiah who chose violence instead of peace, and the horrible consequences. The fact that Paul could see the future did not allow him to find another path. Glad we finally have someone who understands this.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:45:29pm

re: #89 piratedan

If Fani Willis wasn’t a woman or a POC, ZERO of this would even be entertained as questionable

They’ve tied the case up for weeks while the judge has acted like every judge involved in a Trump trial and walked on eggshells for fear that a single wrong move will lead to him walking clear on appeal. So it’s par for the course.

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William Lewis  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:46:17pm

re: #92 ckkatz

Communist group disrupts Timothy Snyder’s lecture, forces evacuation

Fucking Tankie morons.

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ckkatz  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:49:48pm

re: #98 William Lewis

Fucking Tankie morons.

Apparently they have been stalking him since at least November.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:52:18pm

re: #93 William Lewis

Our rates can vary by day of the week - they’d be very unhappy here 🤣

Ours do as well, but during the winter they tend to start around the $70-80 mark before the third parties step in and chop another $20-30 a night off the top. Add in people only booking no more than a week at a time because it’s all they can afford and those sudden jumps in prices when March rolls around always catches them off-guard.

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piratedan  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:54:51pm

re: #97 Targetpractice

I get it, but I have to admit that by THIS time, the US legal system should fucking well know by now that anything argued by Donald J Trump is done so in bad faith and with no interest in finding the truth or exonerating him as a defendant.

I’m pretty fucking worn out that having to take each absurd theory and specious argument on its own merits as anything other than a distraction and a delaying tactic.

Honestly, who’s fucking on trial here for attempting to subvert the election process in the state of Georgia? Add into that, how the hell does who Fani Willis may or may not have been in sexual congress with have anything to do with the prosecution of those crimes in any relevant fashion? Jaysus fuck, we’re in Hunter Biden laptop territory here.

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ckkatz  Mar 1, 2024 • 9:56:21pm

Looks like Daniel Dale (fact checker during tfg presidency) is back. Courtesy of CNN.

Sington Xitter post

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Odie Hugh Manatee  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:00:24pm

re: #46 darthstar

I trust Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show. Never gave bad advice to anyone.

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ckkatz  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:02:13pm

re: #93 William Lewis

re: #100 Targetpractice

After hearing all the stories of what you two have to deal with, I certainly have so much more sympathy for the folks who work hotels.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:03:35pm

re: #96 silverdolphin

Villeneuve has said in interviews that Paul is not the hero. He mentioned that Herbert wrote Dune Messiah because he was shocked so many people read Dune and thought Paul was a hero. DM was written to make it explicit that he was not. Which is why Villeneuve wants to make the third one.

I was at a presentation once where Herbert said that Dune was about a Messiah who chose violence instead of peace, and the horrible consequences. The fact that Paul could see the future did not allow him to find another path. Glad we finally have someone who understands this.

It’s a bit like how Batman is portrayed as a hero in the loosest sense depending upon how strictly the author of the day chooses to stick to his moral code. That if you actually took his belief system to its logical conclusion, then you end up with a fascist police state where people are safe from crime…but only because they’re under constant surveillance and even the smallest crimes are punished under the “broken windows” philosophy.

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Captain Ron  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:08:30pm
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Belafon  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:17:26pm

re: #102 ckkatz

Supposedly, according to my parents, that gesture Trump is making toward Abbott was Trump stating that he has considered having Abbott as his running mate.

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Orange Impostor  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:28:43pm

re: #107 Belafon

Supposedly, according to my parents, that gesture Trump is making toward Abbott was Trump stating that he has considered having Abbott as his running mate.

If it gets Abbott out of the Texas Governor’s mansion, I am all for this.

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Targetpractice  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:29:08pm

re: #101 piratedan

I get it, but I have to admit that by THIS time, the US legal system should fucking well know by now that anything argued by Donald J Trump is done so in bad faith and with no interest in finding the truth or exonerating him as a defendant.

I’m pretty fucking worn out that having to take each absurd theory and specious argument on its own merits as anything other than a distraction and a delaying tactic.

Honestly, who’s fucking on trial here for attempting to subvert the election process in the state of Georgia? Add into that, how the hell does who Fani Willis may or may not have been in sexual congress with have anything to do with the prosecution of those crimes in any relevant fashion? Jaysus fuck, we’re in Hunter Biden laptop territory here.

I agree, but it’s the nature of the beast, this is a mobster-wannabe who has spent his life making a mockery out of the system by exploiting the sort of loopholes that would land you or I in a prison cell for rest of our days. Every judge involved in this BS knows that he’s going to do everything in his power to drag things out, make a big stink at trial about how “unfair” it all is, and then drag it through the appellate system where he’ll make the same legally ridiculous arguments that failed to work at trial. Yes, we all hate it and think it’s absolutely asinine, but it’s who Trump is and what he does.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:30:14pm

Btw. Resident Alien on Netflix is very entertaining. 👽

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:31:24pm

re: #108 Orange Impostor

If it gets Abbott out of the Texas Governor’s mansion, I am all for this.

But it only gets him out of the governor’s mansion if Trump wins — and I don’t think that is an exchange you really want.

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Captain Ron  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:48:28pm
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piratedan  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:55:19pm

re: #110 GlutenFreeJesus

the writing is quite sharp and the penchant for embracing tropes and turning them sideways never gets old imho.

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piratedan  Mar 1, 2024 • 10:56:36pm

re: #108 Orange Impostor

knowing Trump, he’s as likely to forget Abbott on the campaign trail as not. Although he’s also known for being a bit squicky around anyone with a disability, Abbott may be sufficiently cruel for him as a running mate and perhaps he’s calculating that he may get some sympathy votes using a disable person as a running mate, he’s cyncial enough.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 1, 2024 • 11:57:20pm

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Tchaikovsky - Nocturne in C# minor (Luke Faulkner)





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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 1:30:47am

re: #109 Targetpractice

I agree, but it’s the nature of the beast, this is a mobster-wannabe who has spent his life making a mockery out of the system by exploiting the sort of loopholes that would land you or I in a prison cell for rest of our days. Every judge involved in this BS knows that he’s going to do everything in his power to drag things out, make a big stink at trial about how “unfair” it all is, and then drag it through the appellate system where he’ll make the same legally ridiculous arguments that failed to work at trial. Yes, we all hate it and think it’s absolutely asinine, but it’s who Trump is and what he does.

And they have to tread lightly to make it not look like a “Deep State Witch Hunt”. Which is irrelevant because they will be accused of that regardless of what they say or do.

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Targetpractice  Mar 2, 2024 • 1:49:56am

re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And they have to tread lightly to make it not look like a “Deep State Witch Hunt”. Which is irrelevant because they will be accused of that regardless of what they say or do.

Yep, every motion to dismiss so far has included at least one paragraph about how he is the worst treated man in America and how the entire thing is a conspiracy by the Bidens to destroy him utterly.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 2, 2024 • 1:51:37am

For all you view camera lovers out there, presenting the Stacey 69, from 43 years ago:

1981: Presenting the STACEY 69 technical CAMERA | Nationwide | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

..

Not a particular fan of 6x9 format, it is the same aspect as the common 3:2 with which most people are accustomed.

Christie’s had one for sale 19 years ago: christies.com

They were hoping for 209 GBP but it only brought in 72.

I wonder what it would bring today.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 1:53:37am

re: #117 Targetpractice

Yep, every motion to dismiss so far has included at least one paragraph about how he is the worst treated man in America and how the entire thing is a conspiracy by the Bidens to destroy him utterly.

there is one grain of truth to that assertion: Had DJT stayed out of politics, he would probably still be getting away with a lot of his scams and crimes.

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Targetpractice  Mar 2, 2024 • 2:17:15am

re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

there is one grain of truth to that assertion: Had DJT stayed out of politics, he would probably still be getting away with a lot of his scams and crimes.

2/3 of the cases against him (3 criminal and the E Jean defamations) depend upon actions taken while he was in the WH. The case of Stormy & The Mushroom probably would never have gone anywhere if he lost the election. And without the increased scrutiny on his finances that being in the WH brought, it’s unlikely anybody would have known about Trump Org’s “creative accounting” until it came time to divvy up his empire upon his demise.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 2:23:54am

re: #120 Targetpractice

The issue with Stormy was not that he paid a prostitute hush money but rather that he booked it to his election campaign.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 2, 2024 • 2:33:35am

re: #120 Targetpractice

And without the increased scrutiny on his finances that being in the WH brought, it’s unlikely anybody would have known about Trump Org’s “creative accounting” until it came time to divvy up his empire upon his demise.

You’re right. None of this would’ve become publicly known, beyond rumors and whispers, until Trump’s death and then his empire would’ve all ended up in probate court to untangle the whole sordid mess.

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William Lewis  Mar 2, 2024 • 2:37:54am

Ah, there are times when I am _so_ glad we don’t rent to anyone under 21. That punk dressed 19 year old was pretty blatantly high in some kind of opioid. Now he’s trying to get me to let him hang out in the lobby because it’s “cold”. Hey, I can always call the cops and he can be warm in the drunk tank…

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Targetpractice  Mar 2, 2024 • 2:38:01am

re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The issue with Stormy was not that he paid a prostitute hush money but rather that he booked it to his election campaign.

Right, without the presidential campaign, the odds that the state of NY gave a shit that a geriatric actor paid a porn star to spank him with a magazine would have remained the stuff of gossip rag lore.

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TarHellion  Mar 2, 2024 • 2:41:53am

re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Perhaps the most amazing aspect of the Stormy Daniels-FFVCS saga is that it was the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal that first broke the story about the hush money payments back in early 2018.

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Targetpractice  Mar 2, 2024 • 2:42:19am

re: #123 William Lewis

Ah, there are times when I am _so_ glad we don’t rent to anyone under 21. That punk dressed 19 year old was pretty blatantly high in some kind of opioid. Now he’s trying to get me to let him hang out in the lobby because it’s “cold”. Hey, I can always call the cops and he can be warm in the drunk tank…

Only exception I’ve ever made to the 21+ check-in requirement is active duty military with either military ID or CAC card. Why? Because we take pictures of ID presented at time of check-in. So if you decide to act a fool and damage the room, I can forward a copy of that picture along with pictures of the damages to your CO the very next day.

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William Lewis  Mar 2, 2024 • 2:45:16am

re: #126 Targetpractice

Only exception I’ve ever made to the 21+ check-in requirement is active duty military with either military ID or CAC card. Why? Because we take pictures of ID presented at time of check-in. So if you decide to act a fool and damage the room, I can forward a copy of that picture along with pictures of the damages to your CO the very next day.

Oh, I’ll let in military as well for the same reasons. College athletes are usually safe too because most of them have scholarships on the line. But Joe Stoner? Nope.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Mar 2, 2024 • 2:58:08am

I think I only had one option after line three.
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 3:24:52am

re: #124 Targetpractice

Right, without the presidential campaign, the odds that the state of NY gave a shit that a geriatric actor paid a porn star to spank him with a magazine would have remained the stuff of gossip rag lore.

It was not illegal as such, the only real hanky-panky involved how he booked it.

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Targetpractice  Mar 2, 2024 • 3:34:41am

re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It was not illegal as such, the only real hanky-panky involved how he booked it.

Yep. The only way it became a crime is if he ran a campaign at all. No presidential run, no crime unless he included it as part of his “creative accounting.” In such a hypothetical world, it’s doubtful we would have ever even learned about it in his lifetime. Certainly Ms. Clifford didn’t seem overly thrilled to have that mark on her career made public.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 4:31:49am

re: #130 Targetpractice

Yep. The only way it became a crime is if he ran a campaign at all. No presidential run, no crime unless he included it as part of his “creative accounting.” In such a hypothetical world, it’s doubtful we would have ever even learned about it in his lifetime. Certainly Ms. Clifford didn’t seem overly thrilled to have that mark on her career made public.

It made her name (or at least her pseudonym) a household word. But remember, in the modern media lasndscape, there is no such thing as bad publicity

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steve_davis  Mar 2, 2024 • 4:48:44am
It’s some rather bad lawyering when you find yourself berating your own “star witness” because what they’re saying on the stand doesn’t match with the text messages you failed to make the court aware of until said “witness” changed their story on.

I’m guessing this is part of the reason depositions exist. It’s nice if you’re going to try to impeach a witness if you’ve got something UNDER OATH that they’ve already said.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2024 • 4:55:36am

Speaking of crimes, Trump supporters are being conned into buying worthless “Trump coins” and “Trump bucks” with lies from AI generated celebrities that they are investments buyers will be able to use as legal tender. So far as anyone can tell, Trump isn’t getting a piece of this action. nbcnews.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 4:56:55am

re: #133 No Malarkey!

Speaking of crimes, Trump supporters are being conned into buying worthless “Trump coins” and “Trump bucks” with lies from AI generated celebrities that they are investments buyers will be able to use as legal tender. So far as anyone can tell, Trump isn’t getting a piece of this action. nbcnews.com

Good. Fuck them coming and going.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2024 • 4:57:24am

re: #125 TarHellion

Perhaps the most amazing aspect of the Stormy Daniels-FFVCS saga is that it was the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal that first broke the story about the hush money payments back in early 2018.

The WSJ has some excellent real journalists, despite its horrible ownership.

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Randall Gross  Mar 2, 2024 • 4:58:43am

Free Article at Foreign Affairs, Barak calls for early elections in Israel, and reminds us there is a war time precedent
foreignaffairs.com

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Randall Gross  Mar 2, 2024 • 5:04:40am

bsky.app

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2024 • 5:07:42am

how many people get to write this sentence:

I was out rowing and an armadillo crossed in front of me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 5:11:44am

re: #138 Dangerman

how many people get to write this sentence:

I was out rowing and an armadillo crossed in front of me.

Just one or a whole armada?

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 2, 2024 • 5:15:32am

re: #132 steve_davis

I’m guessing this is part of the reason depositions exist. It’s nice if you’re going to try to impeach a witness if you’ve got something UNDER OATH that they’ve already said.

You would be correct in this. Sworn depositions get their testimony in writing. If they then contradict themselves on the stand, you can use the threat of perjury to get to the truth.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 5:18:05am

re: #132 steve_davis

I’m guessing this is part of the reason depositions exist. It’s nice if you’re going to try to impeach a witness if you’ve got something UNDER OATH that they’ve already said.

Can’t Trump’s lawyers ask for a mulligan, hold depositions, get their witnesses in line, and start their efforts to remove Fani Willis all over? Isn’t that how it’s done when you’re a former President?

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Oblongatis  Mar 2, 2024 • 5:32:38am

re: #84 Scottish Dragon

Dune Messiah is even more acidly pessimistic

That won’t be made. SyFy channel skipped it and went right to Children of Dune. It was a good call. Dune Messiah main point is to provide background to the longer story arc that will never be made into films.
First time I read it I thought it was a contractually required publication. The second time a read the series I discovered a ton of foreshadowing, and a clearer idea of what prescient vision was. It’s not required for the shallow interpretation a movie is restricted to.
Haven’t seen the latest movie yet. Please tell me Baron Harkonnen doesn’t fly in this version.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 2, 2024 • 5:36:31am

re: #142 Oblongatis

Well, he was definitely a Floater in the 1st half.

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2024 • 5:40:48am

re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Just one or a whole armada?

Just the one

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 5:43:10am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 2, 2024 • 5:45:42am

re: #133 No Malarkey!

Speaking of crimes, Trump supporters are being conned into buying worthless “Trump coins” and “Trump bucks” with lies from AI generated celebrities that they are investments buyers will be able to use as legal tender. So far as anyone can tell, Trump isn’t getting a piece of this action. nbcnews.com

Last September, 86-year-old Ann Bratton thought she’d stumbled onto the investment of a lifetime.

An ad on one of the encrypted Telegram app channels the Nashville-area retiree had joined was offering debit-like “Trump cards” featuring the billionaire U.S. ex-president’s image, each supposedly preloaded with $200,000. After years of forking out tens of thousands of dollars on souvenir banknotes, coins, and other Trump memorabilia, she calculated that she could quickly and easily turn a $6,000 investment into a $4 million nest egg.

What she didn’t know was that behind the offer of “Trump Collection” cards was an opaque group of web-based vendors from a faded industrial city 8,500 kilometers away. And that city, in the Balkan country of North Macedonia, was already notorious for being home to legions of scammers who had fraudulently monetized Donald Trump’s popularity in the United States and around the world.
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But it’s an open secret in this corner of the Balkans that a startlingly successful digital disinformation and fake news industry that emerged in the Macedonian city of Veles alongside the political rise of Donald Trump helped lay the groundwork for a thriving new business in fraudulent goods marketed through encrypted channels to Trump-style conservatives and “patriots” an ocean away.

rferl.org

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 5:53:39am

re: #146 Dr Lizardo

the purchaser who spent, say, $99.99 on a “$10,000 Diamond Trump Bucks” bill will be able to cash it in for $10,000 at major banks and retailers like Walmart, Costco and Home Depot.

Sounds legit. Spend 99 bucks and get 10K back at Walmart next time I go in to pick up a pillow case size bag of cheese puffs so my face will have the same patina as Trump’s? Where do I sign?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Mar 2, 2024 • 5:55:37am

re: #146 Dr Lizardo

Does Wal-Mart know of this…deal? I’ll take the remainder in small, unmarked bills.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 2, 2024 • 5:56:32am

re: #147 darthstar

Sounds legit. Spend 99 bucks and get 10K back at Walmart next time I go in to pick up a pillow case size bag of cheese puffs so my face will have the same patina as Trump’s? Where do I sign?

Like their wannabe Messiah, these people suffer from the get-rich-quick mentality. And such folk are the marks of hustler and grifters, easily-hustled rubes.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:01:36am

A morning image of that salvage yard fire I posted about last night:

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:01:45am

re: #128 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

I think I only had one option after line three.
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Getting the first letter on the second guess really helped

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gocart mozart  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:07:27am
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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:13:00am

Trump Is Not Strong, Or Winning - No Red Waving 2024 Please

Let me say it plainly - Donald Trump is not ahead in the 2024 election. He is not beating Joe Biden. He is not in a strong position. Signs of Trumpian and broader GOP weakness is all out there for folks to see - if they want to see it. Let’s dive in a bit:

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:13:24am

re: #152 gocart mozart

It played the NY art house circuit in the 60s. (Thalia, Symphony, 8th Street Cinema).

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:14:36am

re: #153 Dangerman

Trump Is Not Strong, Or Winning - No Red Waving 2024 Please

As long as he and the GOP perform 7 to 17 points below expectations as he has in the primaries we should be fine.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:15:34am

re: #146 Dr Lizardo

rferl.org

Even if the rapist had nothing to do with this scam, his mere presence opens up the possibilities for others to promote their own grifts in his name. The marks have become so conditioned to respond to literally any promotion that uses his name in the hope some of the orange magic will rub off on their dull, purposeless, unfullfilling lives. Someday, some sociologist is going to write the end-all book documenting this totally bizarre cult from its inception through to its (hopefully) massively explosive conclusion.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:22:27am

re: #156 sizzzzlerz

Even if the rapist had nothing to do with this scam, his mere presence opens up the possibilities for others to promote their own grifts in his name. The marks have become so conditioned to respond to literally any promotion that uses his name in the hope some of the orange magic will rub off on their dull, purposeless, unfullfilling lives. Someday, some sociologist is going to write the end-all book documenting this totally bizarre cult from its inception through to its (hopefully) massively explosive conclusion.

I’m thinking of Trump turd paperweights. “Trump Dumps”, if you will.

I figure find a factory that makes fake dog poop, have them make something that looks like the human variety, weigh it down just a bit to give it some substance, then have it sealed in a plexiglass block. With some cheap “Trump commemorative coin” to certify authenticity.

I figure I’ll be able to retire a multi-millionaire. 😄

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:31:21am

re: #156 sizzzzlerz

re: #157 Dr Lizardo

Sad for the geese, but better the money goes to Macedonia than to the RNC.

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:34:14am

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William Lewis  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:35:25am

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William Lewis  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:35:45am

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Jay C  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:38:07am

re: #157 Dr Lizardo

I’m thinking of Trump turd paperweights. “Trump Dumps”, if you will.

I figure find a factory that makes fake dog poop, have them make something that looks like the human variety, weigh it down just a bit to give it some substance, then have it sealed in a plexiglass block. With some cheap “Trump commemorative coin” to certify authenticity.

I figure I’ll be able to retire a multi-millionaire. 😄

Why not?
After all, Donald Trump has made a ton of money peddling shit for his whole life - why shouldn’t you get a chance, too? 😜

But SRSLY? The pitch on this crap is that *someday* it can be “redeemed” (for goods) at major retailers for extreme multiples of its nominal “value”?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:38:21am

re: #153 Dangerman

Trump Is Not Strong, Or Winning - No Red Waving 2024 Please

That is because you are only counting the votes.

Votes are going to be irrelevant in this election as they are going to be massively disrupted and disqualified, throwing the outcome of the election to the House of Representative state delegations, where the GOP is clearly ahead.

That is their clear path to victory, and all they need is to generate enough chaos and ratfucking, something they have a great deal of experience at.

The result will be a “Republic Based on Christian Principles”, which, like the Islamic Republic, is moderatied by a Fundamentalist Council with the right to disqualify and laws or candidates they find unsuitable.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:42:29am

re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Political violence will become inevitable as Blue America takes up arms to defend themselves against Red-state tyranny.

There will simply be no other choice.

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:42:48am

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:46:17am

re: #157 Dr Lizardo

I’m thinking of Trump turd paperweights. “Trump Dumps”, if you will.

I figure find a factory that makes fake dog poop, have them make something that looks like the human variety, weigh it down just a bit to give it some substance, then have it sealed in a plexiglass block. With some cheap “Trump commemorative coin” to certify authenticity.

I figure I’ll be able to retire a multi-millionaire. 😄

Tfg sues you for stealing his likeness
The it goes to court and he has to prove the “piles” youre selling do in fact look like his

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:46:35am

re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is because you are only counting the votes.

Votes are going to be irrelevant in this election as they are going to be massively disrupted and disqualified, throwing the outcome of the election to the House of Representative state delegations, where the GOP is clearly ahead.

That is their clear path to victory, and all they need is to generate enough chaos and ratfucking, something they have a great deal of experience at.

The result will be a “Republic Based on Christian Principles”, which, like the Islamic Republic, is moderatied by a Fundamentalist Council with the right to disqualify and laws or candidates they find unsuitable.

Actually votes are going to be irrelevant because no Republicans will vote after realizing the error of their ways.

I mean, if we’re going to speculate.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:46:56am

re: #160 William Lewis

The Little Pig, Florence. (Not my shot). The nose is worn shiny for good luck.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:51:13am

re: #168 Decatur Deb

Do not laugh. That is similar to the pig that was in the main store of Strawbridge and Clothier in Center City Philadelphia. And yes his nose was shiny for the same reason.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:52:29am

Mastodon

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:55:12am

re: #169 PhillyPretzel ✅

Do not laugh. That is similar to the pig that was in the main store of Strawbridge and Clothier in Center City Philadelphia.

This one is from 1634, and a copy of a classical Roman one. Pigs go back a ways.
en.wikipedia.org

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:55:23am

Sigh….off to IKEA to pick up a new LED bulb for the bathroom. Don’t wanna have to shower in the dark, LOL.

Back later.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:56:50am

The guy’s still trying to fight a 1 million dollar fine…

Link: Trump fighting 900k Clinton penalty
c.im

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:57:15am

re: #170 darthstar

I’m not a tea drinker. Yet excellence in design has a universal appeal, no? I confess we went through a few French presses for our coffee before settling on one.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 6:58:49am

re: #172 Dr Lizardo

Sigh….off to IKEA to pick up a new LED bulb for the bathroom. Don’t wanna have to shower in the dark, LOL.

Back later.

Walking the entire IKEA maze for a light bulb? Pro tip - go in via the exit and through the register line…that’s where the bulbs are.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:03:33am

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:05:27am

re: #169 PhillyPretzel ✅

Do not laugh. That is similar to the pig that was in the main store of Strawbridge and Clothier in Center City Philadelphia. And yes his nose was shiny for the same reason.

Found yours—Sidney Australia has one too.

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steve_davis  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:05:55am

re: #146 Dr Lizardo

rferl.org

these people are absolutely dumb as fuck. what ATM allows anyone to withdraw 5000 dollars a day?

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:11:58am

The pig gets around: (he does a cameo in Hannibal.)

Copies of the sculpture can be found around the world. Some of the locations are:

Australia

Sydney Hospital, Sydney, NSW[6]

Belgium

Royal Greenhouses of Laeken, Brussels
Place de Bastogne, Koekelberg, Brussels
Enghien Park, Enghien
Antwerp Zoo[7]

Canada

Butchart Gardens, Victoria, BC
Modern Languages building, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON[8]
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS

Denmark

Brotorvet, Holstebro

France

Musée du Louvre, Paris
Place Richelme, Aix-en-Provence

Germany

Sitzender Keiler (recreation by Martin Mayer) in the Borstei and in front of the Deutschen Jagd- und Fischereimuseum,[9] Munich

Italy

Rispescia, Grosseto, Tuscany

Japan

Tokyo, Nihonbashi District, Pigeon Corporation Headquarters

Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture
Uroko no Ie, Kitano Ijinkan, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture[10]

Norway

Slemdal skole, Oslo

Spain

Parque de El Capricho, Madrid

Sweden

Lejonet och svinet, Stockholm

United Kingdom

Derby Arboretum, Derby, England
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England
Leweston School, Dorset, England[11]
Castle Howard, North Yorkshire[12]
St Mary’s College, Durham, Durham, England[13]
Kimmerghame House, Scottish Borders, Scotland
Osborne House, Isle of Wight, England

U.S.

Arkansas
University of Arkansas campus, Fayetteville
California
Viansa Winery,[14] Sonoma
Colorado
Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood
Connecticut
Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford
Delaware
Delaware Museum of Natural History, Wilmington
Georgia
Armstrong Kessler Mansion, 447 Bull Street, Savannah
Hawaii
Honolulu, private collection
Illinois,
Riverview Inn & Suites, on the Rock River in Rockford
Kansas
The Villages Shopping Center, Prairie Village
Kentucky
Louisville, private collection
Louisiana
R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport
Missouri
Country Club Plaza, N.W. Corner of 47th Street and Wornall Road, Kansas City
Nevada
Main Street Station Casino Brewery Hotel - at casino bar, Las Vegas
New York
Sutton Park[15]
The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom amusement park at Queensbury
North Carolina
Mar Boar Restaurant, Wallace
Pennsylvania
Former Strawbridge & Clothier store, 801 Market Street, Philadelphia
South Carolina
Poinsett Plaza, Greenville
Texas
Plaza Skillman Shopping Center, Dallas
Dallas Zoo, Dallas
Rice Village, Houston
Vermont
Lyndon Center[16]
Virginia
Stone Tower Winery, Leesburg, Virginia

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:15:50am

Enough about pigs, now let’s return to Republican candidates.

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Jay C  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:22:27am

re: #180 Decatur Deb

Enough about pigs, now let’s return to Republican candidates.

Aren’t they usually the same, or quite similar?

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:23:17am

re: #180 Decatur Deb

Enough about pigs, now let’s return to Republican candidates.

In local Texas Republican ads attacking each other, on candiate touted that he defeated the voucher program here in Texas that would have given money to illegal immigrants. The only voucher program I can think of is the attempt to give vouchers for use at charter and Christian schools that most places, including rural areas, do not like.

Also, Colin Allred, Democrat, is running on keeping government out of women’s health care by restoring their right to have an abortion.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:23:23am

re: #181 Jay C

Aren’t they usually the same, or quite similar?

There is a resemblance.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:25:58am

re: #182 Belafon

In local Texas Republican ads attacking each other, on candiate touted that he defeated the voucher program here in Texas that would have given money to illegal immigrants. The only voucher program I can think of is the attempt to give vouchers for use at charter and Christian schools that most places, including rural areas, do not like.

Also, Colin Allred, Democrat, is running on keeping government out of women’s health care by restoring their right to have an abortion.

Alabama is fighting the same rural/urban war about private (religious) school vouchers at the moment. I’ve contacted my rep to innocently stir the anti-papist shit a little.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:27:40am

re: #164 Dr Lizardo

Political violence will become inevitable as Blue America takes up arms to defend themselves against Red-state tyranny.

There will simply be no other choice.

I am seriously concerned that we will not get through the next election without violence and bloodshed.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:29:12am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am seriously concerned that we will not get through the next election without violence and bloodshed.

Screw it. We can’t get through a HS basketball season without violence and bloodshed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:29:53am

re: #167 Belafon

Actually votes are going to be irrelevant because no Republicans will vote after realizing the error of their ways.

I mean, if we’re going to speculate.

My point is that the GOP knows that they have zero chance of winning the popular vote and almost no chance of winning the EC, they have to resort to extreme methods to disqualify all those means and have this election decided by the state delegations or by SCOTUS, which are the only instances where they have a majority

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:31:39am

re: #186 Decatur Deb

Screw it. We can’t get through a HS basketball season without violence and bloodshed.

yes, we do fight to defend and maintain that which we hold sacred

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:31:42am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am seriously concerned that we will not get through the next election without violence and bloodshed.

Is it going to bloody in Europe?

As far as here, as someone said, minorities have had to deal with the violence for ages, the rest of us can, too.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:33:16am

Also, a whole lot of people will vote early, reducing the chance of disruptions.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:33:45am

The threat of violence is vitiated nowadays. Americans do violence very well.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:36:28am

re: #190 Belafon

Also, a whole lot of people will vote early, reducing the chance of disruptions.

And Dems disproportionally vote early and by mail. If the clowns drive voters from the polls, it will bite them.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:36:41am

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jeffreyw  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:37:30am

Nap Time

Good morning!

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A Cranky One  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:38:09am

Gentle Giant
Caravan
Strawbs
The Soft Machine

Just some of the tunes I lost during my divorce from hell.

Thrilled that I can listen to them now on streaming services.

edit to fix embarrassing typo.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:39:11am

re: #170 darthstar

I use a Brown Betty Teapot for black fermented teas. A variety of Japanese tea pots for green and white tea.

“Brown Betty” teapots made by James Sadler and Sons Ltd

A Brown Betty is a type of teapot, round and with a manganese brown glaze known as Rockingham glaze.[1][2]

The original teapots came from a red clay that was discovered in the Stoke-on-Trent area of Britain, in 1695. This clay resulted in a ceramic which seemed to retain heat better and so found use as the material for the teapot as early as the seventeenth century. These early pots were tall and shaped more like coffee pots. In the nineteenth century the pots began to take on the more rounded shape of the modern Brown Betty. The Rockingham Glaze was brushed on the pot and allowed to run down the sides, creating a streaky finish as it was fired.

In the Victorian era, when tea was at its peak of popularity, tea brewed in the Brown Betty was considered excellent. This was attributed to the design of the pot which allowed the tea leaves more freedom to swirl around as the water was poured into the pot, releasing more flavour with less bitterness.[3]

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Jay C  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:39:19am

re: #195 A Cranky One

Gentile Giant

So not a Golem, then???

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:40:31am

re: #178 steve_davis

these people are absolutely dumb as fuck. what ATM allows anyone to withdraw 5000 dollars a day?

If you call your bank before you travel you can up your limit.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:42:08am

re: #149 Dr Lizardo

Like their wannabe Messiah, these people suffer from the get-rich-quick mentality. And such folk are the marks of hustler and grifters, easily-hustled rubes.

To be fair, America itself is an affiliation scam.

Rubes arrived in the 1500s as a landrace and have been differentiating themselves into specialized niches ever since.

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A Cranky One  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:42:53am

re: #197 Jay C

So not a Golem, then???

Ouch.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:44:30am

re: #189 Belafon

Is it going to bloody in Europe?

As far as here, as someone said, minorities have tmhad to deal with the violence for ages, the rest of us can, too.

there are countries in Europe who have managed to get through elections and changes of government without widespread violence and bloodshed for the past several decades at least.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:45:42am

re: #193 darthstar

speaking of, my seeds just arrived in the mail. as of April 1st I will be able to grow them legally.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:46:20am

re: #195 A Cranky One

Gentle Giant
Caravan
Strawbs
The Soft Machine

Just some of the tunes I lost during my divorce from hell.

Thrilled that I can listen to them now on streaming services.

edit to fix embarrassing typo.

Don’t know Caravan but the rest were all part of my teenage record collection

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:48:09am

re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What did you order and who from? I need to mail order some to grow on the roof of the groove pit.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:48:15am

The RNC has $7M in a presidential election year. That’s like having $1.27 in your checking account.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:49:25am

re: #204 darthstar

What did you order and who from? I need to mail order some to grow on the roof of the groove pit.

It came with a circle of flowers and a drip system on a timer…no brainer!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:49:54am

re: #204 darthstar

What did you order and who from? I need to mail order some to grow on the roof of the groove pit.

an online company in the Netherlands called Royal Queen Seeds

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:50:35am

Forgot to get this one done, but I got there in the end.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 987 3/6*

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:51:00am

re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

an online company in the Netherlands called Royal Queen Seeds

I forget you’re not stateside. Will have to crowd source a provider here.

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calochortus  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:51:51am

re: #206 darthstar

It came with a circle of flowers and a drip system on a timer…no brainer!

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That railing looks totally up to code.

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Egregious Philbin  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:52:43am

re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was at a hydroponics store the other day, I needed a new water pump for the koi pond. Surprised to see they were selling feminized seeds, 7 for $50 (I somehow get a 20% discount), and, they had mushroom growing kits. And at the counter they had syringes with spores for all kinds of eating mushrooms, and all kinds of magic mushrooms. But you can’t buy the growing kit and the magic mushroom spores at the same time…vague laws…LOL

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:53:30am

re: #210 calochortus

That railing looks totally up to code.

It’s decorative…will be replaced. Oh, and SacBee has an article on seed catalogs

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:53:41am

re: #122 Dr Lizardo

You’re right. None of this would’ve become publicly known, beyond rumors and whispers, until Trump’s death and then his empire would’ve all ended up in probate court to untangle the whole sordid mess.

But when is he going to be held account for tax evasion? He’s Leona Helmslied his taxes his entire life — and the nation suffers for that.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:56:55am

I thought you might get a kick out of this (everyone knows the basic plot of Dune so it doesnt give anything away):

If you’ve watched any other franchise movie, many of which lifted plot elements directly from Frank Herbert’s original “Dune” novel — “wars” waged in the “stars,” space magic, empires — you can probably surmise what happens next. Paul learns the ways of the Fremen and joins them in rebelling against the Harkonnens, who have returned to their planet to loot it for “spice,” the magic pixie dust that fuels all interstellar space travel and also gets you high as balls. Why does Earth have no resource like this? Why can’t I travel to Mars by burning a fatty? QUIT SLEEPING ON THE JOB, BIDEN.

sfgate.com

The rest of the article is kind of spoilery, just to be warned.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:57:28am

re: #128 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

I think I only had one option after line three.
Wordle 987 4/6

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Par

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Wordle 987 4/6

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Group: 3,4,4,6
Annoyed with myself — it wasn’t until I hit enter that I realized guess 3 had a letter in a place that I knew it didn’t belong. Grrr. Hate when that happens.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:58:31am
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:59:01am

re: #135 No Malarkey!

The WSJ has some excellent real journalists, despite its horrible ownership.

And horrible opinion pieces.

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JC1  Mar 2, 2024 • 7:59:56am

re: #178 steve_davis

these people are absolutely dumb as fuck. what ATM allows anyone to withdraw 5000 dollars a day?

Some casino ones do, and some private bank ATM cards have daily limits that high.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:00:07am

re: #169 PhillyPretzel ✅

Do not laugh. That is similar to the pig that was in the main store of Strawbridge and Clothier in Center City Philadelphia. And yes his nose was shiny for the same reason.

Goat Statue in Rittenhouse Square

People rubbing animal statues for luck seems to not be that uncommon.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:03:26am
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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:04:57am

I expect a lot of ads on this:

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:06:00am
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DodgerFan1988  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:09:36am


MAGA’s reactions on X is raw sewage.

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calochortus  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:10:05am

re: #216 Dr. Matt

But isn’t there a “T” on Trump’s sneakers? That’s a $300 “T.”

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:11:07am

re: #140 Nerdy Fish

You would be correct in this. Sworn depositions get their testimony in writing. If they then contradict themselves on the stand, you can use the threat of perjury to get to the truth.

And if the deposed witness dies before trial, the court will usually allow reading of the deposition as testimony.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:11:18am

re: #224 calochortus

But isn’t there a “T” on Trump’s sneakers? That’s a $300 “T.”

“The Trump brand is a premium brand, and people will pay extra for the privilege of owning Trump merchandise.”

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:16:59am

re: #223 DodgerFan1988

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MAGA’s reactions on X is raw sewage.

“If it wasn’t for DEI, he would have been required to turn right like all of the white drivers have to.”

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:18:30am

Today is not just my daughter’s birthday, it is the anniversary of her tribe’s (husband, 4 kids, daughter-in-law, and new grand baby) acquisition of grand-pup Carter.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:20:41am

During WWII, Bette Davis performed for black troops, the only white participant in a troupe formed by black star Hattie McDaniel, Chairman of the Negro Division of the Hollywood Victory Committee, to perform for black servicemen.

facebook.com

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Jay C  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:21:56am

re: #219 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

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People rubbing animal statues for luck seems to not be that uncommon.

Not just animals: I can’t remember which institution it was, but I recall a museum curator once telling me that their cast of Rodin’s male nude “The Age of Bronze” had to be periodically re-patinated, as visitors (the figure was displayed on a open staircase) were in the habit of rubbing it for “luck”.
Hint: it wasn’t his nose that was getting shined….

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mmmirele  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:22:18am

My brother’s surgery got moved up from 1 pm to 10 am, so I ran down there as soon as I got the text and sat with him until they fetched him at 8:50. He told me he had an earworm: “Psycho Killer” by the Talking Heads. Heck of an earworm. He’s in as good a mood as anyone can be who was awakened every couple of hours through the night, was told his surgery had been moved up at 3 am, and who hadn’t been allowed a cup of coffee yet this morning.

I’ll go back and see him this afternoon once he’s out of surgery and back in his room.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:23:01am

re: #175 darthstar

Walking the entire IKEA maze for a light bulb? Pro tip - go in via the exit and through the register line…that’s where the bulbs are.

I’m back.

That’s what I did - first place I always hit up at IKEA is the scratch-and-dent section, because they almost always have LED light bulbs, or I’ll see if they have something I need. Today was no exception. Got a two-pack of 60w equivalents for about $6.50.

Went to the self-checkout, all told, done with IKEA in under ten minutes.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:24:28am

re: #216 Dr. Matt

full image

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:25:00am

re: #213 Hecuba’s daughter

But when is he going to be held account for tax evasion? He’s Leona Helmslied his taxes his entire life — and the nation suffers for that.

And his sons are correct in pointing out that he is doing nothing that is not already so widespread and common in the industry that you are putting yourself at a competitive disadvantage if you don’t.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:25:56am

re: #233 darthstar

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Also, I’m guessing they’re not limiting production to 1,000 pairs anymore.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:28:26am

re: #233 darthstar

re: #235 darthstar

Imagine being the dumbass bumpkin that splashed out a couple large for those. 😄

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:31:06am

Rabbit. Wordle 987 5/6*

Click to Reveal

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🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:31:22am

Back to Dune: having watched part one several times now, I recall no mention of a central bit of background history: namely that in this future, humankind has banned all technology that replaces humans: no computers, no genetic engineering, etc.

This is gave us the Mentats and Bene Gesserits, who learn to expand their mental powers and engage in a multi-generational breeding program.

And without computers, the only way to safely travel through space is to eat enough spice to “see” a safe route across the galaxy. Thus the vital role that it plays in holding humankind together.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:32:23am

Used a letter in a place I knew it wasn’t not once, but TWICE… but landed the partridge.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:34:57am

re: #239 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Used a letter in a place I knew it wasn’t, not once, but TWICE… but landed the partridge.

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I only did that once. I guess I should try twice.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:35:12am

re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And his sons are correct in pointing out that he is doing nothing that is not already so widespread and common in the industry that you are putting yourself at a competitive disadvantage if you don’t.

Then try and convict them all. They won’t be missed.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:36:15am

re: #238 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Back to Dune: having watched part one several times now, I recall no mention of a central bit of background history: namely that in this future, humankind has banned all technology that replaces humans: no computers, no genetic engineering, etc.

This is gave us the Mentats and Bene Gesserits, who have learned to expand their mental powers and engage in a multi-generational breeding program.

And without computers, the only way to safely travel through space is to eat enough spice to “see” a safe route across the galaxy. Thus the vital role that it plays in holding humankind together.

Yeah, the Butlerian Jihad isn’t mentioned at all.

There is, however (and it’s not really a spoiler) a scene where Princess Irulan is using a shigawire to record her diary. It looked pretty much exactly how I’d imagined it.

Nice attention to detail.

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danarchy  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:41:34am

re: #170 darthstar

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My question is why would you ever want to pour hot tea from 4 feet up?

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:42:18am

The article above joked that maybe the third movie will show how you get OFF a giant worm.

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BeachDem  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:43:16am

With all the talk about cognitive tests for candidates, Alexandra Petri has created a perfect one. A few sample questions:

12. Who is the president now?

13. Who won the last presidential election?

14. Should these answers be the same?

It’s hilarious, as usual for Alexandra.

Gift link
wapo.st

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:44:07am

Manchineel. One of the most poisonous trees in the world, the Spaniards would plant it near the beaches of Curaçao, so that greens-starved enemy sailors would eat its fruit, which looked like an apple.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:44:43am

‘Current conditions’ says, ‘unknown precip’. It’s raining, but only under the trees as the snow melts off. Snow drove the ants inside. I’ve kept them from finding food in here, but they still use my place for transit. There’s rain/snow in the forecast for a week.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:49:59am

re: #247 wrenchwench

I know the feeling. Here is the NWS page for Philadelphia/Mount Holly:
weather.gov

It has been like this for a couple of days.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:50:53am

re: #245 BeachDem

With all the talk about cognitive tests for candidates, Alexandra Petri has created a perfect one. A few sample questions:

12. Who is the president now?

13. Who won the last presidential election?

14. Should these answers be the same?

It’s hilarious, as usual for Alexandra.

Gift link
wapo.st

The current “President” is a lizardoid changeling body double inhabiting the White House

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:51:30am

re: #205 Ace Rothstein

The RNC has $7M in a presidential election year. That’s like having $1.27 in your checking account.

But they do have unlimited funds through various SuperPacs. Very deceptive when we look only at official Party funds.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:54:04am

re: #227 Belafon

“If it wasn’t for DEI, he would have been required to turn right like all of the white drivers have to.”

Elon Musk - “!!!!!”

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jeffreyw  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:54:26am

re: #212 darthstar

It’s decorative…will be replaced. Oh, and SacBee has an article on seed catalogs

Dammit! I was set to order but they don’t take Discover card and my credit union Visa has expired.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2024 • 8:59:35am

I sat with my neighbor Ron for about 20 minutes this morning. The last couple of times he knocked, I didn’t answer, so today I did. When I sit with him, he’s pretty quiet, but when I don’t he sometimes hollers at his pain, which is mostly in his back, but he also has COPD. He yells at the ‘people’ who are torturing him, after he’s tried so hard to be good. Last time he said it was NASA that was treating him so badly.

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Oblongatis  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:01:11am

re: #244 Belafon

The article above joked that maybe the third movie will show how you get OFF a giant worm.

You ride the worm till it exhausts itself, then you can get off. Worms aren’t for neighborhood jaunts.

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mmmirele  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:01:45am

re: #125 TarHellion

Perhaps the most amazing aspect of the Stormy Daniels-FFVCS saga is that it was the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal that first broke the story about the hush money payments back in early 2018.

The reporters at the WSJ do a pretty good job when they’re allowed to. It’s the editorial / op-ed pages that are the U part of the Wall Street Urinal.

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nines09  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:06:58am

re: #219 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Everywhere I have ever been, if there is a bronze statue, it will be touched either for curiosity or the legend of luck. Oldest boy went to Northeastern University for a year. I rubbed his snout.
The legend of the Husky statue

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Captain Ron  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:07:45am

a view of I80 at Donner Summit.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:08:28am
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mmmirele  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:08:43am

re: #148 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Does Wal-Mart know of this…deal? I’ll take the remainder in small, unmarked bills.

It’s probably like the Iraqi dinar or Zimbabwe currency scams that proliferated in the late ’00s into the ’10s. Inevitably, the “instructions” for cashing out once everything came to fruition had these suckers going to branches of my employer (which was specifically mentioned). I half remember a memo about what currencies my employer could take for exchange going around many years ago, presumably as a way to stop this.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:09:24am

re: #254 Oblongatis

You ride the worm till it exhausts itself, then you can get off. Worms aren’t for neighborhood jaunts.

You get off by exhausting your worm, eh? And the hooks in the side are just for the kink, then?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:10:16am

re: #155 darthstar

As long as he and the GOP perform 7 to 17 points below expectations as he has in the primaries we should be fine.

Foot. On. The. Gas until it’s over.

Too much is at stake.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:11:23am

re: #258 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

My (late) ex GF-moved to the AZ/Mexico border with her (late) hubby.

He was one of the original border militia and built a thirty-foot observtion tower so he could sit up and hunt illgals, too bad he did live to see his dream of Eternal Open Season come true.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:14:29am

re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

You get off by exhausting your worm, eh? And the hooks in the side are just for the kink, then?

Those worms are moving pretty damn fast, at least in Dune: Part Two.

It’d be like trying to step off the top deck of a 747 taxiing down the runway at 80 km/h (50 mph).

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jeffreyw  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:19:41am

Mastodon

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nines09  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:21:22am

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:24:22am

Completely agree with this statement:

Despair only limits future action - Simon Clark

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:24:50am

Mastodon

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:25:15am
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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:25:28am

re: #236 Dr Lizardo

Imagine being the dumbass bumpkin that splashed out a couple large for those. 😄

His were signed by Trump.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:29:33am

re: #238 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Back to Dune: having watched part one several times now, I recall no mention of a central bit of background history: namely that in this future, humankind has banned all technology that replaces humans: no computers, no genetic engineering, etc.

This is gave us the Mentats and Bene Gesserits, who learn to expand their mental powers and engage in a multi-generational breeding program.

And without computers, the only way to safely travel through space is to eat enough spice to “see” a safe route across the galaxy. Thus the vital role that it plays in holding humankind together.

Watched Dune 2 on Imax last night. Spoilers in box. You’ve been warned!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:34:25am

I read the book, so no need for spoiler alert.

But still no mention of Butlerian Jihad or why the spice is vital to space travel or why human government is a throwback to medieval times with ruling houses competing under the aegis of an Emperor?

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jaunte  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:35:27am

re: #271 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

why the spice is vital to space travel

Which raises the question how humans got to Arrakis in the first place.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:39:27am

re: #272 jaunte

Which raises the question how humans got to Arrakis in the first place.

Bear in mind that the Dune universe is set about 20,000 years from now. I’d imagine that it’s not implausible that there’d be human colonies on other planets by then.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:39:56am

re: #186 Decatur Deb

Screw it. We can’t get through a HS basketball season without violence and bloodshed.

Or a frickin’ superbowl victory parade!

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:42:43am

re: #257 Captain Ron

a view of I80 at Donner Summit.

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Remember when we were in a horrible drought?

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:43:44am

re: #272 jaunte

Which raises the question how humans got to Arrakis in the first place.

If the air is breathable, people are going to live there.

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jaunte  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:46:17am

re: #273 Dr Lizardo

re: #276 Belafon

Both points true, but you have to get there through space travel, and in the novels the spice required for space travel is not on Earth.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:48:27am

re: #272 jaunte

Which raises the question how humans got to Arrakis in the first place.

Spice is vital to space travel now (in the Dune universe), but in earlier days, they had computers to manage space travel. It wasn’t until after the Butlerian Jihad that spice was mandatory, and by then, the Spacing Guild had agents on Arrakis.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:48:42am

re: #223 DodgerFan1988

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MAGA’s reactions on X is raw sewage.

When is it not?

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:51:51am

re: #277 jaunte

Both points true, but you have to get there through space travel, and in the novels the spice required for space travel is not on Earth.

IIRC, humans began migrating off Terra well before the founding of the Spacing Guild: that event takes place 10,191 years before the events of the first Dune novel.

So that gives humans some 9,000-odd years to colonize other planets.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:53:01am

re: #272 jaunte

Which raises the question how humans got to Arrakis in the first place.

They had computers up to the Butlerian jihad that banned all technology that replaces humans

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:54:06am

re: #277 jaunte

In the Dune timeline, space travel begins on Old Terra around 11,300 B.G. (Before Guild, the dating convention used in-universe) which corresponds to the 1960s in our calendar.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:54:24am

re: #244 Belafon

The article above joked that maybe the third movie will show how you get OFF a giant worm.

I saw it yesterday afternoon and that thought did cross my mind.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:55:09am

re: #244 Belafon

The article above joked that maybe the third movie will show how you get OFF a giant worm.

Probably want to buy it a drink first.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:57:10am

Good. They can’t get parts for them anyway.

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:57:50am

Boyz ‘n’ the Shai Huludz

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:58:44am

re: #257 Captain Ron

a view of I80 at Donner Summit.

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Makes me hungry.

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nines09  Mar 2, 2024 • 9:59:30am

re: #287 Eventual Carrion

Makes me hungry.

I was wondering what specials the local restaurants have up…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:00:30am

re: #283 Eventual Carrion

I saw it yesterday afternoon and that thought did cross my mind.

In the book, you ride the worm until it’s exhausted, then (carefully!) jump off. The hooks are for making it turn in the directions you want.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:03:29am

re: #284 darthstar

Probably want to buy it a drink first.

Squirm around here often? *wink wink*

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:07:45am
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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:10:08am

Nice…these guys are fucking around with dollar figures Trump could never dream of…

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Nojay UK  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:11:00am

re: #278 Nerdy Fish

Interstellar space travel was very dangerous even before the Butlerian Jihad since no-one could predict what might get in the way of the starships in motion. For example ships could collide with random intrastellar rocks at superlight speeds, unable to detect obstacles before they were destroyed. It was still possible to travel between stars but very very risky and with a lot of failures. Early sea-going ventures in our own history are replete with ships lost to navigation failures, shipwreck and storms and so it was with the early star travellers. Today it’s a ticket on a plane with the expectation that nothing will go wrong and you’ll reach your destination safely. Columbus, Vasco de Gama and Magellan, eat your heart out.

Spice from Arrakis begat the Navigation Guild, entities who could see into the future and choose a safe route for their starships through the multiple possibilities and avoid disastrous outcomes. By the time Duke Leto Atriedes was sent to take control of Arrakis, interstellar space travel in Guild Highliners was as safe as anything.

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:11:55am

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:15:10am

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:16:46am

re: #294 Teukka

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Resspondamess. That sums it up. Now it’s a word.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:17:02am

re: #294 Teukka

I find scadillity to be an underappreciated skill.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:18:57am

re: #295 darthstar

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In my Dungeons and Dragons session two weeks ago, I had some of my players hired as mercenaries for an “anti-terrorist operation” that turned out to be a local tyrant wanting to suppress dissent. They wound up cutting off his hands and letting him bleed out on the ground while the king’s guard came and arrested his toadies. Would that life imitated art in this case.

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darthstar  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:19:03am

re: #295 darthstar

I, for one, welcome regional uprisings - may the Ingushetians use their knowledge of the local environment to successfully fuck up Putin’s attempts to squash rebellion.

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jeffreyw  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:22:42am

re: #252 jeffreyw

Dammit! I was set to order but they don’t take Discover card and my credit union Visa has expired.

My credit union has Zelle, I set that up to pay for my Girl Scout Cookies.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:24:24am

re: #300 jeffreyw

My credit union has Zelle, I set that up to pay for my Girl Scout Cookies.

You should get a bonus box for setting it up.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:28:26am

re: #295 darthstar

Ingushetia is next to Chechnya, with all the “this region is completely fucked in ways that don’t fit into tidy narratives” that implies. They have 53% unemployment, are 96% Sunni, are one of the poorest regions in Russia, and they’ve been protesting Russian impositions into their elections since 2019.

The Russians announcing an op there doesn’t mean they’re resisting, it means the Russians are probably about to terrorize the population under the pretext of the War on Terror.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:30:19am

re: #219 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

People rubbing animal statues for luck seems to not be that uncommon.

At UMD they rub Tesudo’s nose for luck.

< With each passing semester comes a plethora of projects, exams, interviews and more, resulting in stresses so great that they can only be alleviated by the one and only Testudo, our trusty mascot. Whether it be a simple rub on the nose, or a full-blown offering (particularly popular during finals week), Testudo knows how to bring us the good luck, or just the little pick-me-up, that we need./blockquote>

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jeffreyw  Mar 2, 2024 • 10:33:23am

re: #301 wrenchwench

You should get a bonus box for setting it up.

They gave me $10 off and doubled my order for the same money.

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Dangerman  Mar 2, 2024 • 11:44:57am

re: #258 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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Alabama is advancing a bill that would not punish doctors if something went wrong with ivf.

That would “allow” people to legally kill people too.
Those same people they were oh so concerned about just a short time ago.

Weirdly, this also essentially legalizes the murder of undocumented people

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 2, 2024 • 1:08:08pm

re: #66 EPR-radar

I would assume fields like the Dept. Of Anthropology, Paleontology, Women’s Studies, Sociology, and Dept. Of Astronomy will be on the list of DeSantis’ and other fascist dictator’s list of threats to popular opinion and hence a threat to power.

No one is safe.


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