PBS Space Time: Interstellar Expansion WITHOUT Faster Than Light Travel

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In the far future we may have advanced propulsion technologies like matter-antimatter engines and compact fusion drives that allow humans to travel to other stars on timescales shorter than their own lives. But what if those technologies never materialize? Are we imprisoned by the vastness of space—doomed to remain in the solar system of our origin? Perhaps not. A possible path to a contemporary cosmic dream may just be to build a ship which can support human life for several generations; a so-called generation ship.

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175 comments
1
Decatur Deb  May 19, 2024 • 10:58:49am

Manifest Stellar Destiny.

2
Vicious Babushka  May 19, 2024 • 11:01:24am

Tankies are using the language of the Biden campaign against Biden. Make it make sense (OK it makes putin sense)

Mastodon

3
JC1  May 19, 2024 • 11:02:37am

We just need to extend the timescales of the human life. A 200 year journey may not be so bad if our lifespan was indefinite.

4
Vicious Babushka  May 19, 2024 • 11:03:34am

re: #3 JC1

We just need to extend the timescales of the human life. A 200 year journey may not be so bad if our lifespan was indefinite.

Let’s pretend to extend Elon’s life and send him out to explore deep space.

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Decatur Deb  May 19, 2024 • 11:03:51am

re: #3 JC1

We just need to extend the timescales of the human life. A 200 year journey may not be so bad if our lifespan was indefinite.

Try it with a 4 yr old kicking the back of your seat-table.

6
jeffreyw  May 19, 2024 • 11:05:54am

Mastodon

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jaunte  May 19, 2024 • 11:06:44am

re: #4 Vicious Babushka

Persuade him to transfer his mind into a chip.

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jaunte  May 19, 2024 • 11:07:21am

Recommended:

“…Non-Stop is a 1958 science fiction novel by British writer Brian Aldiss. It is about problems that the inhabitants of a huge generation space ship face after an alien amino acid that they picked up on another planet triggers a pandemic. Law and order began to collapse, and knowledge of the ship and of its purpose was eventually almost entirely lost throughout the vessel.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Stop_(novel)

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William Lewis  May 19, 2024 • 11:12:45am

From downstairs…

re: #185 Hecuba’s daughter

Maybe if he were 150 pounds lighter, 5 inches taller, and not Jewish — based on other types of bias in our society.

Yes, unfortunately he’s right _and_ you’re right… the hairless primates are a really fucked up species and it’s hard to see if we will be around much longer.

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Unabogie  May 19, 2024 • 11:14:42am

re: #2 Vicious Babushka

Tankies are using the language of the Biden campaign against Biden. Make it make sense (OK it makes putin sense)

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Yes, Biden is famously vowing to purge anyone from serving the country if they don’t agree to election lies and his party in general. He also fired the prosecutor who is charging his son. Tulsi, as usual, is just spot on.

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jaunte  May 19, 2024 • 11:16:27am

re: #2 Vicious Babushka

I wonder how she’s getting paid.

12
Jay C  May 19, 2024 • 11:18:08am

re: #11 jaunte

I wonder how she’s getting paid.

Ultimately, in rubles, most likely.

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jaunte  May 19, 2024 • 11:19:58am

Gabbard’s absurd take on Trump:

“…Gabbard went on to lavish praise on the former president, which was well received in the room. “I’ve had the chance to meet with him and speak with him at length, and I’ve seen firsthand his heartfelt interactions with friends of mine, veterans, and I’ve seen how he has touched their hearts and moved them to tears as he expressed his appreciation for their service and their sacrifice. No cameras, no crowds. Just that heartfelt conveyance of appreciation.”

She added: “I’ve gotten a sense for what motivates him and it’s got nothing to do with what the Washington establishment is accusing him of. This is a man who’s a fighter, his strength and resilience can only come from one place. His ability to endure this much can only come from one place, a sincere love and concern for the future of our country and his care for the American people.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/23/tulsi-gabbard-republican-speech-cpac

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 19, 2024 • 11:20:07am

re: #3 JC1

We just need to extend the timescales of the human life. A 200 year journey may not be so bad if our lifespan was indefinite.

But on the flip side, doing so would potentially give us an even bigger overpopulation problem.

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Dangerman  May 19, 2024 • 11:21:54am

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JC1  May 19, 2024 • 11:22:22am

re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg

But on the flip side, doing so would potentially give us an even bigger overpopulation problem.

I don’t think that we have an overpopulation problem; not even close.

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Unabogie  May 19, 2024 • 11:23:44am

re: #13 jaunte

Gabbard’s absurd take on Trump:

Yeah, there’s no way she actually saw him act that way. I think the fact that over 40 former cabinet/administration members (including his own VP) refuse to back his return to power says volumes about what he’s “really like” behind closed doors.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  May 19, 2024 • 11:24:09am

re: #16 JC1

I don’t think that we have an overpopulation problem; not even close.

You’ve mentioned that belief before. It seems to ignore human nature. We’ve fucked up our environment badly at our current population.

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JC1  May 19, 2024 • 11:24:23am

This will make some heads explode 😂😂😂

“Conservative is one who clings to something and does not want to see beyond that. It is a suicidal attitude,” says Pope Francis. This Sunday on 60 Minutes, the Pope sits down with @NorahODonnell. 60minutes.com

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jaunte  May 19, 2024 • 11:25:11am

re: #17 Unabogie

He has to love that her first go-to is a tearful “sir” story.

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JC1  May 19, 2024 • 11:29:05am

re: #18 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

You’ve mentioned that belief before. It seems to ignore human nature. We’ve fucked up our environment badly at our current population.

Our (US) air and water are cleaner now then when our population was 1/3 of what it is now.
As economics make solar and nuclear cheaper than fossil fuels, developing economies will clean up their act. This is a phase. Earth can support many times the current population, though our population is unlikely to double from where it is today. Much of the western world has a stagnant or shrinking population if immigration is excluded.

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Dangerman  May 19, 2024 • 11:30:20am

No riots
No Disruptions
Huh

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Dangerman  May 19, 2024 • 11:30:58am
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Vicious Babushka  May 19, 2024 • 11:31:19am

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 19, 2024 • 11:31:30am

re: #2 Vicious Babushka

Tankies are using the language of the Biden campaign against Biden. Make it make sense (OK it makes putin sense)

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TOOLSI again…

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Dangerman  May 19, 2024 • 11:32:32am

re: #13 jaunte

Gabbard’s absurd take on Trump:

Tl,dr: bullshit

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Randall Gross  May 19, 2024 • 11:33:50am

re: #3 JC1

We just need to extend the timescales of the human life. A 200 year journey may not be so bad if our lifespan was indefinite.

She walked through the gates and the children cried,
She walked through the Market and the voices died,
She walked past the court house and the judge so still,
She walked to the bottom of Death’s Head hill…

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 19, 2024 • 11:35:55am

OT: This is me reminding all of you the importance of investing in future generations.

Just before Ms. Cyborgs grandmother passed in early 2009, she wrote her then 2 1/2 year nephew a letter and gave it to us for safekeeping because the letter was not to be given to him intil he turned 18.

This week is his 18th birthday. We gave him the letter yesterday:

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

The emotion on his face is self evident. I say again DO THINGS like this for your family.

I’ve helped to raise this kid and he’s turned out pretty good. He even decided to move in with Ms. Cyborg and I while attending college in our area next fall.

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Randall Gross  May 19, 2024 • 11:47:28am

re: #15 Dangerman

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‘Zackly why he’s a RW superstar, admired above all others including God.

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jaunte  May 19, 2024 • 11:48:13am

I had to go out and take away Lucy’s prey this morning.

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 19, 2024 • 11:48:49am

So it appears that Iran did not blame Israel, which is good.

I do have a question for Shiplord: Is it a characteristic of helicopter pilots to be hot-doggers? I’m still pissed off at Kobe’s pilot.

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CleverToad  May 19, 2024 • 11:49:05am

re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg

OT: This is me reminding all of you the importance of investing in future generations.

Just before Ms. Cyborgs grandmother passed in early 2009, she wrote her then 2 1/2 year nephew a letter and gave it to us for safekeeping because the letter was not to be given to him intil he turned 18.

This week is his 18th birthday. We gave him the letter yesterday:

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The emotion on his face is self evident. I say again DO THINGS like this for your family.

I’ve helped to raise this kid and he’s turned out pretty good. He even decided to move in with Ms. Cyborg and I while attending college in our area next fall.

UUdiTjNuUmQxZmNXTWtadWVORHRvL2lpNTZuc1E4azlnWTZ5bG5KY3MxQ3VZeW4ybFVYWTYvMkFjQklXcCtjTTQ3KzlSdmlKWTJ2cVQybEVma09ZZUk3UkpsUis1VmxqU2hEYnRnUUlvQ0VTV2V0dFBLUzFtcXV2aFk2bTZUQlpTWEhvbzgvZFdMK1dLcGVmTURxcXd3PT06Oopqn4aUDZKvgcWoAURRvE8=

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Charles Johnson  May 19, 2024 • 11:54:21am

If something goes wrong on a helicopter in flight you’re basically fucked unless you’re close enough to the ground to survive a crash and manage to avoid the whirling blades. There’s no gliding to a landing in those things.

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EstebanTornado1963  May 19, 2024 • 11:56:22am

re: #31 HRH Stanley Sea

I’m still pissed at the Air Traffic Controllers and I knew most of them. Some are some lazy fuckers.
aviationpros.com

“It said the first named controller rejected the request, stating, “I’m going to lose radar and comms probably pretty shortly so you can just squawk V-FR and when you get closer to Camarillo tower.”

“This denial was improper because radar contact had not been lost and services were being denied based on the possibility they might be lost at some point in the future,” the company argued in the filing.”
Translation, “I’m too lazy to give you one iota of help if I don’t have too”😡

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Belafon  May 19, 2024 • 11:57:30am

re: #2 Vicious Babushka

Tankies are using the language of the Biden campaign against Biden. Make it make sense (OK it makes putin sense)

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It will always happen, but the evidence is that only one of them is trying to be a dictator.

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 19, 2024 • 11:58:06am

re: #34 EstebanTornado1963

I’m still pissed at the Air Traffic Controllers and I knew most of them. Some are some lazy fuckers.
aviationpros.com

“It said the first named controller rejected the request, stating, “I’m going to lose radar and comms probably pretty shortly so you can just squawk V-FR and when you get closer to Camarillo tower.”

“This denial was improper because radar contact had not been lost and services were being denied based on the possibility they might be lost at some point in the future,” the company argued in the filing.”
Translation, “I’m too lazy to give you one iota of help if I don’t have too”😡

Damn

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 19, 2024 • 11:59:03am

re: #30 jaunte

I had to go out and take away Lucy’s prey this morning.

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YIKES!

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jaunte  May 19, 2024 • 11:59:40am

re: #37 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

My thought exactly.

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Vicious Babushka  May 19, 2024 • 12:04:05pm

re: #30 jaunte

I had to go out and take away Lucy’s prey this morning.

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Red & yellow
Kill a fellow

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 19, 2024 • 12:06:03pm

re: #161 Patricia Kayden

Had to unfollow someone on Blusky just this morning for this. Can they not see that President Biden is better than Trump on the Middle East?

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Most nonvoting young people aren’t people in college with foreign policy opinions.

The data also provide a profile of voting-eligible nonvoters. Four-in-ten Americans who were eligible to vote did not do so in 2016. There are striking demographic differences between voters and nonvoters, and significant political differences as well. Compared with validated voters, nonvoters were more likely to be younger, less educated, less affluent and nonwhite. And nonvoters were much more Democratic.

I’m not going to venture a complete “why” but I very much doubt it has to do with what happens on social media discourse, particularly since those demographic trends read to me like (1) successful vote suppression, (2) inertia from despair, (3) being unaware of how to access the system, than they do “people saying mean things about Biden on the Bluetweetodon.” It’s a kind of elite delusion that online discourse is a measure of “the people” when it’s a non-representative sample with the volume of opinions tweaked by algorithms that promote statements that will drive argument and frustration. It doesn’t become smart to base your assessment of people on what is dragged across one feed just because one is a liberal.

So…this is not persuading actual nonvoters, this is shaming statistically-likely voters, and some of these demographic markers on nonvoting are probably indicative not of personal failing but of how our democracy has always tilted the scales against certain types of people voting.

But this isn’t actually a rhetoric to compel young people to vote by crook, it’s a preemptive explanation for failure without even engaging with the reality of who doesn’t vote. It’s damage control, internal management rhetoric presented as an “argument” where the material issue is just a medium—people turned to pulp with high explosive for smaller and more opaque strategic gains—through which to convey the central point: fuck them kids, they’re the ones responsible when democracy doesn’t produce our desired outcomes, please don’t calculate who actually has power, money, and access.

This is especially troubling because it’s also reflects a failure to understand discourse even as they’re using discourse as a measuring stick. Social media is coarse, hyperbolic, and as a medium encourages immediate reaction…people are going to be ugly and say drastic things on social media because of a bunch of MacLuhanist aspects to how it’s designed. Add to this that it is by-design intended to elicit strong reactions because fear and anger create greater engagement, and this is simply not a medium to use as part of reality-testing.

If you’re an institution constantly in a moral panic about the dirtbags talking shit in a medium where you literally have no ability to gauge who is a person, or whether that person is speaking in good faith, or if their good faith is a momentary eruption of emotion and not a consistent mindset…you are burning time and energy best spent otherwise on an ineffectual moralism that produces no positive results.

If you’re an individual distressed by the contents of social media…do not under any circumstances assume that social media is a valid representation of anything, it is full of inauthentic behavior, literal propaganda, and also people using pseudonymity to express themselves in ways that are shocking. This is not a good reality test, especially since we literally know that people running these apps range from an actual fascist to merely a dead-eyed cynic willing to do anything for more ad revenue.

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Decatur Deb  May 19, 2024 • 12:06:06pm

re: #39 Vicious Babushka

Red & yellow
Kill a fellow

Since you’re moving on to their turf, forget the doggerel—they’re all coral snakes until proven otherwise.

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Decatur Deb  May 19, 2024 • 12:12:39pm
If you’re traveling abroad this summer, it’s important to know the famous rhyme won’t get you far internationally. In places like Mexico, Central America and South America there are coral snakes that actually have red stripes touching white rings and even coral snakes with red rings touching black rings.

Those snakes will still be venomous to you despite what the rhyme says, so it’s best to know what kinds of venomous snakes live in your area.

kxan.com

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sagehen  May 19, 2024 • 12:21:06pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

If something goes wrong on a helicopter in flight you’re basically fucked unless you’re close enough to the ground to survive a crash and manage to avoid the whirling blades. There’s no gliding to a landing in those things.

But if you’re over a forested area and get lucky with your spot, trees maybe absorb a lot of the momentum and slow you down before you reach the ground.

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 19, 2024 • 12:23:16pm

re: #16 JC1

I don’t think that we have an overpopulation problem; not even close.

One of the scariest things in modern discourse is the failure to acknowledge the gulf between overpopulation and overconsumption.

Most of crises are ones of overconsumption: most of the pollution and most of the emissions are the product of industrial activities that serve a very small segment of the total global population. To over-produce for developing worlds markets the world has to generate a lot of emissions and a lot of trash; as “development” involves the adoption of consumerism powered by overproduction, the problem compounds when more and more people want to live a lifestyle in which the measure of success is functionally the ability to waste.

The worst emissions are a tiny slice of a tiny slice—really big companies, mostly in the petrochemical sector—who could theoretically limit their externalities but have no incentive to because there’s just too much money to make from fast and dirty production. Industry purposefully lobbies for the law to reflect a devaluation of commonwealth—the air, the water, the environment—to effectively zero because it socializes something that could be a loss, were authority were to put a value on long-term quality of life for people.

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darthstar  May 19, 2024 • 12:25:10pm

A day late for the mindless pecker thread…

Mastodon

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jaunte  May 19, 2024 • 12:27:25pm

re: #44 The Ghost of a Flea

Willful blindness to the fact we’re already riding in what’s likely the only generation ship we’ll have.

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BigPapa  May 19, 2024 • 12:33:34pm

re: #25 Joe Bacon ✅

TOOLSI again…

Fuck Toolsi. She’s horrible.

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mmmirele  May 19, 2024 • 12:36:11pm

re: #24 Vicious Babushka

This is apparently also happening in the Conroe school district, which is northeast of Houston. It would not surprise me to learn that the Klein district (where I graduated from) and the Spring district (next to Klein and both next to Cy-Fair) were doing the same thing.

But this is NOT a new thing in Texas. When I was a teenager in the 1970s, these two people, Mel and Norma Gabler, were basically in charge of textbook selection in Texas.

en.wikipedia.org

In the ’80s, I worked at a college bookstore that sold the books for accredited at-home high school that was run as a UT Austin extension. (I don’t remember the requirements, but not just anyone could do at-home high school.) Anyway, some of the books we bought (FROM THE PUBLISHERS) had stamps in them indicating that they’d been approved by the Texas Board of Education. The high school economics book’s stamp specifically said that the book taught capitalist and free market principles.

So yeah, this is not a new thing at all. Still disgusting, still annoying. I really doubt they’d let us read “The Crucible” today.

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silverdolphin  May 19, 2024 • 12:39:39pm

re: #48 mmmirele

This is apparently also happening in the Conroe school district, which is northeast of Houston. It would not surprise me to learn that the Klein district (where I graduated from) and the Spring district (next to Klein and both next to Cy-Fair) were doing the same thing.

But this is NOT a new thing in Texas. When I was a teenager in the 1970s, these two people, Mel and Norma Gabler, were basically in charge of textbook selection in Texas.

en.wikipedia.org

In the ’80s, I worked at a college bookstore that sold the books for accredited at-home high school that was run as a UT Austin extension. (I don’t remember the requirements, but not just anyone could do at-home high school.) Anyway, some of the books we bought (FROM THE PUBLISHERS) had stamps in them indicating that they’d been approved by the Texas Board of Education. The high school economics book’s stamp specifically said that the book taught capitalist and free market principles.

So yeah, this is not a new thing at all. Still disgusting, still annoying. I really doubt they’d let us read “The Crucible” today.

They had an easy way to keep from teaching evolution to us in high school in Texas during the 70s. They got the book publisher to put evolution as the last chapeters of the book. “Gpsh darn it. We just do not have time to get to those chapters. Sorry.”

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BigPapa  May 19, 2024 • 12:43:15pm

Operation: Kalua Pig - The wrap up

Wins:
I got bone in: I have big ass bone for future stock
I got a local Kiawe liquid smoke, probably reduce to 3 tbls from 5 next time: strong!
I made Kalua Pig with cabbage/onion, then I have two bags of shredded meat in freezer
I have some strong rendered ju with separated fat for flavoring in future
used taro and ti leaves adding authentic flavor
Tasty!

L’s/changes:
I got to temp of 203 on one side and 190 on the other: I need to hold it longer to get super tender
Probably can reduce salt about 25% or more
Will wrap tight in foil next time: didn’t use foil inside my dutch oven
Will go at lower heat for longer: 325 instead of 350, or go to 325 after an hour

All in all, good to practice as we are going to do this for TGiving. I’ll probably do it a day before then process the meat/ju/fat/veggies

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mmmirele  May 19, 2024 • 12:46:48pm

re: #49 silverdolphin

They had an easy way to keep from teaching evolution to us in high school in Texas during the 70s. They got the book publisher to put evolution as the last chapeters of the book. “Gpsh darn it. We just do not have time to get to those chapters. Sorry.”

My high school biology teacher basically said that we weren’t going to talk about it, let’s move to the next chapter.

ETA: This was also an easy way to avoid discussing the Civil War in college. Every.Single.Textbook we sold in the 1980s was a two-part set because it was a two semester course series. Part 1 ended in 1865, Part 2, started with 1866 and Reconstruction. Basically, the run up to the Civil War got covered, but not the Civil War itself.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 19, 2024 • 12:47:49pm

re: #147 Hecuba’s daughter

Good to see you!! What about Dan Osborn? He was sending me requests for money(just like several dozen others throughout the country, many of whom I never heard of). So he’s not in the race for Senate? I tend to be reluctant to contribute to primary out-of-state candidates since I think that residents in the state should decide which Democrat is best for them.

Dan Osborn is running as an independent in the Senate race for Deb Fischer’s seat.

He was seeking a Nebraska Democratic Party endorsement, but has now rejected the idea. He says he’s not going to “suck up” or “schmooz” to any party.

nebraskaexaminer.com

Kerry Eddy also ran in the Legal Marijuana Now Primary, beating her opponent 679-309. She said she ran to support Osborn. In the run-up she said she would drop out after the primary, drawing the ire of LMN Party faithful. Her opponent said he would seek the nomination to replace her if she does it.

Osborn did not have to run in a primary as an independent candidate. He has about 1/20th the money on hand that Sen. Deb Fischer does.

BREAKING: Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Angora and Moomaw Corner, moving my way.
forecast.weather.gov
windy.com

The closest race for the Unicameral will go to a recount in the non-partisan primary. The two candidates are separated by five votes, with provisional and early-voting ballots to be counted Tuesday. One is an abortion-rights activist and the other is a former employee of Planned Parenthood Action.

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Teukka  May 19, 2024 • 12:48:08pm

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Romantic Heretic  May 19, 2024 • 12:48:39pm

re: #2 Vicious Babushka

As if Ms. Gabbard gives two shits about freedom.

Like most people she doesn’t understand it and if she did she wouldn’t like it,, because freedom gets in the way of power.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 19, 2024 • 12:49:09pm

re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In the Libertarian Primary, the primary collapsed over acrimony between the more traditional Libertarians and the Von Mises monarchist wing. They put up no candidate for US Senate.

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Romantic Heretic  May 19, 2024 • 12:50:26pm

re: #3 JC1

Queen - ‘Who Wants To Live Forever’

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Jay C  May 19, 2024 • 12:51:43pm

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In the Libertarian Primary, the primary collapsed over acrimony between the more traditional Libertarians and the Von Mises monarchist wing. They put up no candidate for US Senate.

Definitely one for the “TIL” file…

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Teukka  May 19, 2024 • 12:52:09pm

re: #53 Teukka

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Hey, something is messed up on the xitter…. 👀👀👀

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Romantic Heretic  May 19, 2024 • 12:53:39pm

re: #16 JC1

We’ve got a perception problem. Our perception is based on ‘scarcity’ and the economic system based around it, misnamed ‘capitalism’.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 19, 2024 • 1:02:18pm

re: #2 Vicious Babushka

Tankies are using the language of the Biden campaign against Biden. Make it make sense (OK it makes putin sense)

Tulsi appearing on Steve Bannon’s show, but somehow Democrats are a threat to freedom.

Which side of the insurrection was Bannon supporting again?

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sizzzzlerz  May 19, 2024 • 1:12:08pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

If something goes wrong on a helicopter in flight you’re basically fucked unless you’re close enough to the ground to survive a crash and manage to avoid the whirling blades. There’s no gliding to a landing in those things.

In other words, they fly much like a brick doesn’t.

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No Malarkey!  May 19, 2024 • 1:12:32pm

re: #13 jaunte

Gabbard’s absurd take on Trump:

Gabbard wants to be Trump’s VP sooo baaad.

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Sherlock Hound  May 19, 2024 • 1:14:09pm

re: #57 Jay C

Definitely one for the “TIL” file…

See also LPNH, Libertarian Party of New Hampshire. Completely monarchist.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 19, 2024 • 1:15:53pm

Tornado watch just went up. A new severe thunderstorm warning is issued for my area.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 19, 2024 • 1:17:53pm

re: #64 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Tornado watch just went up. A new severe thunderstorm warning is issued for my area.

Good to see you on the site again. Be safe.

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goddamnedfrank  May 19, 2024 • 1:21:33pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

If something goes wrong on a helicopter in flight you’re basically fucked unless you’re close enough to the ground to survive a crash and manage to avoid the whirling blades. There’s no gliding to a landing in those things.

You actually don’t want to be near the ground when your helicopter has a problem, because you need to fall quite some distance before enough excess energy is stored in the spinning blades that you can yank up on the collective at the last second and translate that stored energy into lift to pad your landing. Basically if you’re below 500 ft you’re fucked.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 19, 2024 • 1:22:29pm

re: #16 JC1

I don’t think that we have an overpopulation problem; not even close.

Neither do the Libertarian longtermists who want to create a slave class.

YouTube counter-apologist Dark Mater 2525 made a tongue-in-cheek video on “what would happen if Adam and Eve had not disobeyed God and eaten from the Tree of Knowledge?” (NSFW, 6:45, it was put behind a verify-your-age placard because it upset too many Christians).

If Man Obeyed God

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sagehen  May 19, 2024 • 1:23:31pm

re: #48 mmmirele

So yeah, this is not a new thing at all. Still disgusting, still annoying. I really doubt they’d let us read “The Crucible” today.

How about “Rhinoceros”?

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Hecuba's daughter  May 19, 2024 • 1:24:14pm

re: #58 Teukka

Hey, something is messed up on the xitter…. 👀👀👀

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Looks like a joke. Anyone can create a fake message. There isn’t a link to an actual comment.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 19, 2024 • 1:26:06pm

re: #13 jaunte

Gabbard’s absurd take on Trump:

“I’ve had the chance to meet with him and speak with him at length, and I’ve seen firsthand his heartfelt interactions with friends of mine, veterans, and I’ve seen how he has touched their hearts and moved them to tears as he expressed his appreciation for their service and their sacrifice… .”

Yeah, the guy who called us “suckers and losers” were moved to tears (she even talks like him). The guy who insulted a new Gold Star Mother when her son was killed in Chad. The guy who didn’t attend the 100th anniversary memorial service of WW1 because it was raining.

That guy. Loves veterans.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 19, 2024 • 1:26:32pm

re: #64 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Be careful. Keep an eye to the sky.

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Lancelot Link Returns!  May 19, 2024 • 1:32:02pm

re: #31 HRH Stanley Sea

So it appears that Iran did not blame Israel, which is good.

However, a lot of people here attacked them for what they didn’t do.

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sizzzzlerz  May 19, 2024 • 1:34:43pm

What’s wrong with the picture?

If you guessed the bear isn’t wearing his safety helmet and eye protection, you’d be correct

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Vicious Babushka  May 19, 2024 • 1:37:43pm

re: #63 Sherlock Hound

See also LPNH, Libertarian Party of New Hampshire. Completely monarchist.

If they don’t want to live free, they can die.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 19, 2024 • 1:41:23pm

re: #27 Randall Gross

She walked through the gates and the children cried,
She walked through the Market and the voices died,
She walked past the court house and the judge so still,
She walked to the bottom of Death’s Head hill…

The universe revealed by a student of poetry — it’s been a long time since I’ve read that. (Heinlein’s Universe is another good story of generation ships (without the litcrit theme, but with a two-headed man instead).

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Jay C  May 19, 2024 • 1:41:52pm

re: #73 sizzzzlerz

If you guessed the bear isn’t wearing his safety helmet and eye protection, you’d be correct

SO are you going to go over and tell him…??

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 19, 2024 • 1:41:53pm

re: #71 PhillyPretzel ✅

Be careful. Keep an eye to the sky.

It looks like we might dodge a bullet. Tornados can appear several miles from a central thunderstorm though, so we’ll keep an eye on this.

windy.com

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 19, 2024 • 1:43:35pm

re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Okay. Just so long as you keep an eye on the incoming storms.

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Mattand  May 19, 2024 • 1:45:21pm

re: #22 Dangerman

re: #23 Dangerman

Jon Stewart, tomorrow, probably:

“Oh, I’m supposed to be impressed that an old man who clearly doesn’t write his own speeches didn’t make a flub???? Biden’s still old, man! WTF, Democrats????”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 19, 2024 • 1:45:57pm

Astronomer Anton Petrov speculates on findings which might indicate discovery of Dyson Spheres. (10:27)

Dyson Spheres? Two Studies Find Dozens of Stars With Bizarre Emissions

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ericblair  May 19, 2024 • 1:50:58pm

re: #66 goddamnedfrank

You actually don’t want to be near the ground when your helicopter has a problem, because you need to fall quite some distance before enough excess energy is stored in the spinning blades that you can yank up on the collective at the last second and translate that stored energy into lift to pad your landing. Basically if you’re below 500 ft you’re fucked.

Autorotation landings like this are a thing and are standard practice for helicopter pilots during training. That said, it doesn’t look like the weather conditions there were exactly what you’d want if it was an engine failure.

From a political standpoint, I don’t know if the expected replacements for these jokers are any better. We’ll have to wait for somebody who’s got a feel for Iranian government to get an idea.

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EstebanTornado1963  May 19, 2024 • 1:56:28pm

re: #66 goddamnedfrank

They do auto rotate training for that very scenario

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Vicious Babushka  May 19, 2024 • 2:00:38pm

If you’re not PRO HAMAS then why are you wearing their merch?

Mastodon

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Dangerman  May 19, 2024 • 2:04:43pm

re: #82 EstebanTornado1963

They do auto rotate training for that very scenario

A collection of rotating and reciprocating parts…etc.etc….

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danarchy  May 19, 2024 • 2:26:46pm

re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Astronomer Anton Petrov speculates on findings which might indicate discovery of Dyson Spheres. (10:27)

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I like Anton, but he is not an astronomer, he is a math teacher.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 19, 2024 • 2:31:22pm

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 19, 2024 • 2:33:31pm

There’s more. :)))

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 19, 2024 • 2:34:29pm

re: #87 GlutenFreeJesus

What type of bug is that?

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teleskiguy  May 19, 2024 • 2:36:46pm

Look forward to the vaccine experts chime in on Iranian politics.

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness The Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy.bsky.social) 2024-05-19T19:11:56.044Z

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EPR-radar  May 19, 2024 • 2:38:09pm

re: #88 PhillyPretzel ✅

What type of bug is that?

Cicadas, I assume.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 19, 2024 • 2:39:28pm

Me? Harmless (no stinger). Now the females…

ooo… lunch!

en.wikipedia.org

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goddamnedfrank  May 19, 2024 • 2:40:24pm

Connor Clegg, a producer at Fox dropped some of the most batshit racist insanity I’ve seen in a hot minute.

Truly unhinged.

— Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins (@wittywebhandle.bsky.social) 2024-05-19T21:04:17.460Z

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Vicious Babushka  May 19, 2024 • 2:40:48pm

re: #86 GlutenFreeJesus

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Ewww. Reminds me of the last time I was in Wilkes-Barre. Spotted Lantern Flies EVERYWHERE.

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Eventual Carrion  May 19, 2024 • 2:42:26pm

re: #85 danarchy

I like Anton, but he is not an astronomer, he is a math teacher.

Brian May is a musician

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 19, 2024 • 2:45:28pm

re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Shit, Niven’s Ringworld — we don’t need no Pierson’s Puppetteers floating around out there

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 19, 2024 • 2:50:10pm

re: #88 PhillyPretzel ✅

Yeah cicadas. They’re slowly coming out here. Early too.

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BeachDem  May 19, 2024 • 2:52:58pm

re: #92 goddamnedfrank

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Went from working for Charlie Kirk to Kari Lake on “her historic Gubernatorial Run in Arizona” to Laura Ingraham.

It’s a wonder he has two brain cells to rub together.

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goddamnedfrank  May 19, 2024 • 2:55:48pm

re: #97 BeachDem

Great, now I gotta stop calling my finishing move the Longsword of the Leviathan

— Ra’s al Dolezal (@senatorivy.bsky.social) 2024-05-19T21:40:10.044Z

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teleskiguy  May 19, 2024 • 2:58:39pm

re: #92 goddamnedfrank

Heh. Dude padlocked his Twitter.

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BeachDem  May 19, 2024 • 2:59:50pm

re: #98 goddamnedfrank

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Hell, Clegg has been an asshole for quite awhile (probably his whole worthless life) There was a move to impeach the miscreant when he was student body president in college for:

several inappropriate, unconstitutional, unethical, unthoughtful, and abusive actions…Connor Clegg has consistently abused his power as Student Body President on multiple occasions and displayed adamant disrespect and disregard for the struggles of our undocumented students and students of color.

actionnetwork.org

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goddamnedfrank  May 19, 2024 • 3:00:18pm

I propose a total and complete shutdown of white dudes reading Hobbes until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on

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Eventual Carrion  May 19, 2024 • 3:05:56pm

re: #92 goddamnedfrank

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Yeah Conner? Tell it to a Native American.

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Lancelot Link Returns!  May 19, 2024 • 3:08:26pm

re: #92 goddamnedfrank

Me? a racist? It is to laugh.

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Lancelot Link Returns!  May 19, 2024 • 3:10:53pm

re: #104 Lancelot Link Returns!

Hey, Connor.
Welcome to the position of “most punchable face”

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  May 19, 2024 • 3:11:43pm

re: #31 HRH Stanley Sea

So it appears that Iran did not blame Israel, which is good.

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I do have a question for Shiplord: Is it a characteristic of helicopter pilots to be hot-doggers? I’m still pissed off at Kobe’s pilot.

Not the ones who are as old as I am.

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Charles Johnson  May 19, 2024 • 3:12:58pm

re: #104 Lancelot Link Returns!

College Republicans, that’s all you need to know. The biggest collection of proto-fascist caveman douchebags in the US.

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Belafon  May 19, 2024 • 3:14:24pm

re: #2 Vicious Babushka

Tankies are using the language of the Biden campaign against Biden. Make it make sense (OK it makes putin sense)

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Democrats are telling you it’s sunny, Media, and Republicans are saying it’s raining. What’s your job?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 19, 2024 • 3:14:50pm

re: #107 Charles Johnson

They are the worst combo:
1) young men with raging hormones attempting to prove their manhood;
2) priviledge.

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Belafon  May 19, 2024 • 3:15:56pm

Watching Spider-man, No Way Home. Why haven’t all the superheroes gotten the “great power, great responsibility” speech?

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austin_blue  May 19, 2024 • 3:16:32pm

re: #31 HRH Stanley Sea

So it appears that Iran did not blame Israel, which is good.

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I do have a question for Shiplord: Is it a characteristic of helicopter pilots to be hot-doggers? I’m still pissed off at Kobe’s pilot.

Old pilots, and bold pilots, very few old, bold pilots.

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Skip Intro  May 19, 2024 • 3:18:30pm

He definitely has the chops to hit the big time at Fox.

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Belafon  May 19, 2024 • 3:19:17pm

re: #101 goddamnedfrank

I propose a total and complete shutdown of white dudes reading Hobbes until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on

“You’re not allowed to read Hobbes until you write an essay on the meaning of the Giving Tree.”

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Dangerman  May 19, 2024 • 3:23:19pm

re: #108 Belafon

Democrats are telling you it’s sunny, Media, and Republicans are saying it’s raining. What’s your job?

To analyze both positions and report the histories, evolutions and commonalities and contrasts of why each is valid

To look out the fucking window

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Eventual Carrion  May 19, 2024 • 3:23:51pm

re: #107 Charles Johnson

College Republicans, that’s all you need to know. The biggest collection of proto-fascist caveman douchebags in the US.

Kevin Bacon - Fraternity Paddle

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BeenHereAwhile  May 19, 2024 • 3:26:52pm

re: #42 Decatur Deb

kxan.com

Coral snakes are not aggressive snakes like rattlesnakes or water moccasins (no copperheads in our section of FL).

We killed rattlers in the pastures & moccasins found around our area of the lake, but would just remove coral snakes from the yard around the house.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 19, 2024 • 3:29:08pm

re: #60 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Tulsi appearing on Steve Bannon’s show, but somehow Democrats are a threat to freedom.

Which side of the insurrection was Bannon supporting again?

The same side TOOLSI was on—supporting the coup attempt!

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BeenHereAwhile  May 19, 2024 • 3:30:40pm

re: #44 The Ghost of a Flea

*snip*

Industry purposefully lobbies for the law to reflect a devaluation of commonwealth—the air, the water, the environment—to effectively zero because it socializes something that could be a loss, were authority were to put a value on long-term quality of life for people.

Privatize the profit.

Socialize the cleanup.

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teleskiguy  May 19, 2024 • 3:31:01pm

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 19, 2024 • 3:33:18pm

re: #119 teleskiguy

I have heard of duck lips but that chair takes the cake.

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Dave In Austin  May 19, 2024 • 3:36:00pm

re: #30 jaunte

I had to go out and take away Lucy’s prey this morning.

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How long had she been playing with it?

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BeenHereAwhile  May 19, 2024 • 3:37:32pm

re: #81 ericblair

Autorotation landings like this are a thing and are standard practice for helicopter pilots during training. That said, it doesn’t look like the weather conditions there were exactly what you’d want if it was an engine failure.

From a political standpoint, I don’t know if the expected replacements for these jokers are any better. We’ll have to wait for somebody who’s got a feel for Iranian government to get an idea.

The helicopter mechanics who signed off on the last maintenance on that aircraft are probably feeling a little stressed right now.

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BigPapa  May 19, 2024 • 3:38:39pm

College Republicans = MicroBrewery Fascist

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austin_blue  May 19, 2024 • 3:38:41pm

re: #73 sizzzzlerz

What’s wrong with the picture?

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If you guessed the bear isn’t wearing his safety helmet and eye protection, you’d be correct

That bear doesn’t have an access badge to open the doors?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 19, 2024 • 3:38:50pm

re: #92 goddamnedfrank

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jaunte  May 19, 2024 • 3:39:13pm

re: #121 Dave In Austin

About a minute.

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jaunte  May 19, 2024 • 3:41:40pm

re: #92 goddamnedfrank

He seems to be confused about the meanings of aboriginal and foreigner.

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goddamnedfrank  May 19, 2024 • 3:45:49pm

Semi random aside, I can’t see the name Clegg without thinking of Johnny Clegg and the contrast is stark.

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TedStriker  May 19, 2024 • 3:52:22pm

re: #104 Lancelot Link Returns!

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Me? a racist? It is to laugh.

He looks like a younger Hannity in that pic.

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Dave In Austin  May 19, 2024 • 3:54:43pm

re: #126 jaunte

About a minute.

That’s a big one. Glad everyone’s OK.
I generally see one here every year. We have one with aberrant markings. We’ve see it up by the house and down by the creek. They are pretty shy.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 19, 2024 • 3:55:15pm

re: #107 Charles Johnson

College Republicans, that’s all you need to know. The biggest collection of proto-fascist caveman douchebags in the US.

Memories of 50 years ago when the Pitt College Republicans split into two warring factions after Nixon resigned—between Ford Moderates and Reagan Radicals.

The main split was actually involving abortion with Ford supporting and Reagan opposing. That split did not heal at all after 1976 and in 1977 the Reagan radicals got control and purged the Ford moderates out of any leadership positions.

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jaunte  May 19, 2024 • 3:55:30pm

re: #130 Dave In Austin

I’ve only seen one here before, five years ago. Never this close to the house.

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Dangerman  May 19, 2024 • 3:58:35pm
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Romantic Heretic  May 19, 2024 • 4:03:32pm

re: #73 sizzzzlerz

If you guessed the bear isn’t wearing his safety helmet and eye protection, you’d be correct

You tell him.

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Romantic Heretic  May 19, 2024 • 4:12:08pm

re: #104 Lancelot Link Returns!

Didn’t click through to the original post. I thought people were talking about Johnny Clegg for a moment. Possibly the least racist white man, in my opinion.

Johnny Clegg And Savuka - Scatterlings Of Africa (1987)

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sagehen  May 19, 2024 • 4:13:34pm

re: #106 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Not the ones who are as old as I am.

“There are old pilots.
There are bold pilots.
There are no old bold pilots.”

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Romantic Heretic  May 19, 2024 • 4:15:35pm

re: #128 goddamnedfrank

Great minds and all that.

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A Three Hour Tour  May 19, 2024 • 4:16:00pm

re: #107 Charles Johnson

College Republicans, that’s all you need to know. The biggest collection of proto-fascist caveman douchebags in the US.

How much “scholarship money,” if any, has Clegg received from the billionaire groomers who fund conservative think tanks?

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Romantic Heretic  May 19, 2024 • 4:18:13pm

re: #133 Dangerman

They’re not idiots. They are major participants in the kayfabe that is modern politics as practised by the authoritarians and barbarians masquerading as conservatives.

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sagehen  May 19, 2024 • 4:23:09pm

re: #131 Joe Bacon ✅

Memories of 50 years ago when the Pitt College Republicans split into two warring factions after Nixon resigned—between Ford Moderates and Reagan Radicals.

The main split was actually involving abortion with Ford supporting and Reagan opposing. That split did not heal at all after 1976 and in 1977 the Reagan radicals got control and purged the Ford moderates out of any leadership positions.

It wasn’t just Pitt; it was all the College Republican chapters everywhere.

Karl Rove was the chair; his main deputies were Ralph Reed, Jack Abromoff, Lee Atwater…

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nines09  May 19, 2024 • 4:24:08pm

Sunday opening da poo, and just the right day for…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 19, 2024 • 4:24:42pm

re: #139 Romantic Heretic

They’re not idiots. They are major participants in the kayfabe that is modern politics as practised by the authoritarians and barbarians masquerading as conservatives.

Conservatism is authoritarianism and barbarianism. The ideology is the same; they only change names.

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nines09  May 19, 2024 • 4:28:21pm

re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Hey bud. Great to see you back here.
Wellcome home.

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danarchy  May 19, 2024 • 4:36:31pm

re: #94 Eventual Carrion

Brian May is a musician

Yep, a musician with a phd in astrophysics, Anton is a teacher with a masters in education. He is a great science communicator, but he is still not an astronomer.

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nines09  May 19, 2024 • 4:37:32pm

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 19, 2024 • 4:44:15pm

re: #141 nines09

You just closed it! My goodness how time flies.

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nines09  May 19, 2024 • 4:49:02pm

re: #146 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

You just closed it! My goodness how time flies.

In a heartbeat.
No kidding.
In a flash.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 19, 2024 • 4:53:19pm

So far today 1.28” / 3.25cm of rain.

Annual rainfall here is 16.69” / 42.39cm of rain and rain-equivalent snow.

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darthstar  May 19, 2024 • 4:53:40pm

re: #145 nines09

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sizzzzlerz  May 19, 2024 • 4:59:35pm

re: #144 danarchy

Yep, a musician with a phd in astrophysics, Anton is a teacher with a masters in education. He is a great science communicator, but he is still not an astronomer.

Coincidentally, I was looking for something to watch and found Queen in Montreal video on Disney from their concert there in 1981. I’ve seen their LiveAid performance, which was one for the ages, but this shows the band at the height of their power. May is one hell of a guitarist and Freddy, well, he’s Freddy and all that implies.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 19, 2024 • 5:09:38pm

re: #145 nines09

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 19, 2024 • 5:13:35pm

From the University of Oxford (three days ago), confirmation of a prediction from the General Theory of Relativity.

First Proof that “Plunging Regions” Exist around Black Holes In Space (I hope they’re in space and not on Earth /s)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 19, 2024 • 5:32:48pm

I deal with by having a rotary dial telephone.

Mastodon

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The Ghost of a Flea  May 19, 2024 • 5:33:12pm

re: #92 goddamnedfrank

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I spend months and months trying to explain how Republicans think about rules and then a college bro just literally says it with no filters.

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Decatur Deb  May 19, 2024 • 5:36:24pm

re: #154 The Ghost of a Flea

I spend months and months trying to explain how Republicans think about rules and then a college bro just literally says it with no filters.

There is a genetic component to the right to avoid parking fines.

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Dangerman  May 19, 2024 • 5:44:20pm
After brashly declaring he wanted to testify in his criminal trial, it appears increasingly unlikely that Donald Trump will do so, as the jury seems poised to hear closing arguments next week,” the Washington Post reports

Like we didn’t all know the moment he said it

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wrenchwench  May 19, 2024 • 5:48:22pm

re: #156 Dangerman

Like we didn’t all know the moment he said it

Falling asleep in the witness stand would not be a good look.

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Vicious Babushka  May 19, 2024 • 5:48:34pm

“World’s Greatest Barista” died while filling an order for a multi-flavored latte that someone saw on Instagram.

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  May 19, 2024 • 5:51:03pm

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 19, 2024 • 5:51:11pm

re: #158 Vicious Babushka

My reply to that question—I finalized my funeral arrangements with The Neptune Society so there will be no gravestone.

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Belafon  May 19, 2024 • 5:52:02pm

re: #159 Vicious Babushka

Bubble sort, or quick sort?

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 19, 2024 • 5:52:11pm

re: #151 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 19, 2024 • 5:52:14pm

re: #159 Vicious Babushka

They failed to include in that list…VOTING REPUBLICAN…

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Belafon  May 19, 2024 • 5:53:14pm

re: #158 Vicious Babushka

for( int x = 1969; x < YEAR_I_DIE; ++x )
{
live();
}

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darthstar  May 19, 2024 • 5:53:56pm

Walking the boys this morning and I was wearing a tie dye SF giants hoodie because fog…and half way through the walk the damn sun pokes through and suddenly I’m all hot and shit…but I didn’t come here to complain…

After some well deserved beach play because they’re good boys, we were walking back home along the bike path and I see a couple of young women with a toddler (barely walking) and he’s pointing at us…I assume he means the dogs so I shorten their leashes in case he decides to grope at them…but he doesn’t.

As we pass he sings, “Let’s go Giants!” And I sing it back and he looks at his mom in amazement. She says, yes, he knows that song too!

Good fucking vibes on the trail.

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Vicious Babushka  May 19, 2024 • 5:54:20pm

re: #163 Joe Bacon ✅

They failed to include in that list…VOTING REPUBLICAN…

They might think that is a good thing, like poisoning the city water supply.

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Dangerman  May 19, 2024 • 5:55:07pm

Rfkjr claims his voting address is 84 Croton Lake Road In Katonah NY, though he is not the owner of the million-dollar property-in-arrears, does not show up in resident searches for it, and some longtime neighbors — and even local authorities — were shocked at the notion it’s his home.

Link

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 19, 2024 • 5:56:38pm

re: #167 Dangerman

Rfkjr claims his voting address is 84 Croton Lake Road In Katonah NY, though he is not the owner of the million-dollar property-in-arrears, does not show up in resident searches for it, and some longtime neighbors — and even local authorities — were shocked at the notion it’s his home.

Perhaps this is Cuckoo For Cocoa Puff’s Real Home

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teleskiguy  May 19, 2024 • 6:00:05pm

Lunch with the owner and the ops manager tomorrow, talking next steps for me until the next binding build. If they have more work I’m fucken stoked.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 19, 2024 • 6:00:36pm

Brian Glenn, the boyfriend of a certain “bleach-blonde” U.S. representative, shocked devotees of the MAGA YouTube channel Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) on Saturday as he declared his sudden departure from the outlet.

The announcement came at the beginning of RSBN’s coverage of the NRA Convention, where the network had dutifully followed its idol Donald Trump to his planned speech. Glenn opened his broadcast with the news.

Did he leave…or was he fired…Inquiring minds want to know!

thedailybeast.com

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Dangerman  May 19, 2024 • 6:01:50pm

Rubio refused to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 presidential election and repeated conspiracy theories about the 2020 election

He deflected follow-up questions by falsely claiming that Hillary Clinton had denied her loss in 2016.

Marco is spineless.
Here’s how you do it:

I trust the system. It’s how I got elected. No matter what any other dem or rep did or does or thinks. I trust the poll workers and the tabulators. This is the United States and we have a good system overall.

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teleskiguy  May 19, 2024 • 6:02:19pm

bsky.app

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 19, 2024 • 6:04:25pm

re: #171 Dangerman

All they have is denying reality.

That’s why I equate them to creationists, which many happen to be.

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danarchy  May 19, 2024 • 6:09:15pm

re: #171 Dangerman

Rubio refused to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 presidential election and repeated conspiracy theories about the 2020 election

He deflected follow-up questions by falsely claiming that Hillary Clinton had denied her loss in 2016.

Marco is spineless.
Here’s how you do it:

I trust the system. It’s how I got elected. No matter what any other dem or rep did or does or thinks. I trust the poll workers and the tabulators. This is the United States and we have a good system overall.

Which is exactly what someone trying to steal the election would want him to say!!

/////

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 19, 2024 • 6:12:25pm

re: #111 austin_blue

Old pilots, and bold pilots, very few old, bold pilots.

Or any other profession that will kill you in a heart beat or two……….


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