re: #308 steve_davis
It is not apartheid because Israel has palestinian arabs in its parliament. Israel offered the Palestinians East Jerusalem in 1947 for their capital. Palestinians responded by cutting off the water supply to West Jerusalem and spending the next 70 years attempting to drive Jews into the sea. I hope it absolutely eats up Palestinians every time they consider that they could have had a large country in 1948 with a capital in Jerusalem, prosperous countryside filled with orchards, while Israel would be a tiny little nation-state without enough room for an international airport, and that the reason why millions of Palestinians are living in camps is because they and their ancestors were mostly a bunch of religious bigots. Sorry, there’s my two cents’ worth. And yes, Israel has its religious bigots as well, but that’s hardly surprising, considering history. Territorial triumphalism kind of gets baked into everything when every conversation is about land.
It is apartheid because there are different rules for Israeli citizens and Palestinians in the West Bank — civil rule for the former and military rule for the latter.
Even Apartheid South Africa had groups in between the whites and blacks who had some but not all of the privileges of white people, like Asians, the multi-racial “Coloured” community of mixed White, Asian, Black and Khoisan origin, and the “honorary whites” like some East Asians and Black diplomats from friendly African countries.
There was no Palestinian state in 1948. The Kingdom of Jordan, which wasn’t anything like a democracy, annexed the West Bank shortly after they invaded in 1948, so any assertion that the _Palestinians_ made this decision is bogus. The Palestinians weren’t even able to build up a government during British rule, while the British and French allowed local governments to be built up in all their other Middle Eastern colonies.
Jewish local government was allowed by the British during Mandatory Palestine — this transitioned into the multi-confessional Knesset, but the Muslim and Christian equivalent was only allowed to pay for the costs of teachers and preachers.
The West Bank has roads and buses where only Israelis can travel and roads and buses where Palestinians can travel. And in my understanding (someone can correct me) settlements can to a certain extent chose who lives there, so they’re 99.8% Jewish.
The Texas abortion ban prevented doctors from providing an abortion to a woman with a failing pregnancy — forcing her to instead pass the pregnancy on her own, the Dallas Morning News reports.She spent days in agony, vomiting and bleeding, until she passed out from blood loss and nearly died.
As intended
re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg
Want more of this?
Vote Trump.
Wanting as many women to die as possible from pregnancy complications is a Republican thing, not just a Trump thing.
Some great shots of this. Shame that she's so identifiable as he's certainly going to try and have her charged with assault or something
— Paul Haine (@paulhaine.bsky.social) 2024-06-04T13:44:53.182Z
That’s Nazi shithead Nigel Farage getting milkshaked.
re: #9 Dr. Matt
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Yup. Most of those who were “more” likely to vote for him because of his conviction were going to vote for him already.
Joe just threw the gauntlet down on Immigration.
Get ready for the screaming backwash.
re: #122 Patricia Kayden
“SCOTUS will hold that presidents are immune from prosecution for official acts”
So SCOTUS would be sanctioning criminal activities which are “official” and committed by presidents? Good to know.
I could just about see some of our Supreme Court justices thinking that the fact that the word “sanction” means both ‘give permission’ and alternatively ‘reprimand or forbid’ makes it the perfect weasel word for then to include in their decisions.
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I witnessed a dramatic moment a few minutes ago in the hallway outside courtroom: Hunter Biden’s wife Melissa Cohen-Biden approached former Trump aide Garett Ziegler and said “you have no right to be here you Nazi piece of shit!”
— Sarah Fitzpatrick (@S_Fitzpatrick) June 4, 2024
re: #1 aatharuv
It is apartheid because there are different rules for Israeli citizens and Palestinians in the West Bank — civil rule for the former and military rule for the latter.
Even Apartheid South Africa had groups in between the whites and blacks who had some but not all of the privileges of white people, like Asians, the multi-racial “Coloured” community of mixed White, Asian, Black and Khoisan origin, and the “honorary whites” like some East Asians and Black diplomats from friendly African countries.There was no Palestinian state in 1948. The Kingdom of Jordan, which wasn’t anything like a democracy, annexed the West Bank shortly after they invaded in 1948, so any assertion that the _Palestinians_ made this decision is bogus. The Palestinians weren’t even able to build up a government during British rule, while the British and French allowed local governments to be built up in all their other Middle Eastern colonies.
Jewish local government was allowed by the British during Mandatory Palestine — this transitioned into the multi-confessional Knesset, but the Muslim and Christian equivalent was only allowed to pay for the costs of teachers and preachers.
The West Bank has roads and buses where only settlers can travel and roads and buses where Palestinians can travel. And in my understanding (someone can correct me) settlements can to a certain extent chose who lives there, so they’re 99.8% Jewish.
There are definitely problems with the West Bank, but in the actual nation of Israel, Arabs citizens have equal rights. The West Bank is under Israel administration but it is not part of Israel proper. I have always favored some variation of the 2 state solution which Netanyahu and his administration have worked against whenever he was in power.
With the anniversary of D Day just two days away, it’s a good time to remind everyone that we spent the better part of 5+ years and millions of lives to stop the fucking Nazis.
Here in 2024, their ideological descendants are out to repeat history by gaining power and attacking those who seek to stop them as somehow being the ones in the wrong.
Punch a Nazi? Abso-fucking-lutely. In Germany, they use CSA Confederate flags, because the Nazi flag was banned. They just use the CSA flag here in the US to indicate their white power intent. MAGA is Nazism by another name. You have a cult of personality surrounding a deeply sociopathic lunatic who happens to be charismatic and knows exactly how to manipulate the media and crowds to his benefit.
And the media plays along, because they get the eyeballs and ratings they crave, even as democracy dies.
re: #4 EPR-radar
Wanting as many women to die as possible from pregnancy complications is a Republican thing, not just a Trump thing.
Trump personally doesn’t care about this issue — it is solely a Republican thing. The party itself favors this approach and Trump just went along with it.
The arc of the milkshake is long, but it bends toward justice.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-04T18:41:56.000Z
Got an email from AAA’s ID monitor that my phone number was found on the “dark web,” and I’m like, “Yeah, I guessed that, because I suddenly started getting at least 10 spam calls every goddamned day.”
Does the DoNotCall registry actually do anything, besides make spammers laugh?
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-04T17:54:51.000Z
re: #11 Dave In Austin
Joe just threw the gauntlet down on Immigration.
Get ready for the screaming backwash.
Well, seeing as how the only Republican “proposal” for the “immigration crisis” they keep babbling about in RW media is, basically, a version of the Maginot Line, with an East German-style “death strip” along the entirety of the US-Mexican border*, the most likely reaction will be, first, very loud rejection for being “inadequate”; insistence that ONLY a Trump Administration can properly deal with the “crisis”; and the usual Congressional follies which will serve mostly to highlight GOP unseriousness. IOW, business as usual….
*emphasis on the “death” part: RW “solutions” to immigration issues often tend to be rather bloodthirsty.
re: #19 Charles Johnson
I have a blocking feature on my landline phone (Panasonic). I also report said spammer on Find Who Calls You (dot) com.
Just wanted to take a minute and to thank you all for funding some of my backyard restoration a decade and a half or so ago. Materials paid for by federal and state water quality improvement programs and labor supplied mainly by my spouse. Take a look - this part really is doing well:
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Also note that I’m quite smug about having this as my backyard while being only a 15-minute drive to either downtown Mpls or downtown StPaul (and less than five minutes to either’s border). I will now go back to being mostly humble and self-effacing.
re: #18 Charles Johnson
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re: #17 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump personally doesn’t care about this issue — it is solely a Republican thing. The party itself favors this approach and Trump just went along with it.
It’s really hard, and very inconsequential, to judge what Trump personally cares about.
re: #14 Dr. Matt
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I have never heard of Garrett Ziegler. So I googled the little shit weasel.
Apparently Hunter Biden sued Ziegler last year after his website allegedly published hundreds of thousands of leaked emails from Biden’s laptop.
re: #23 wrenchwench
I love the way the photo shows her getting applause. Even the ‘after’ shot.
And the look of pure satisfaction on her face.
I just set my phone’s anti-spam setting to block all “spam risk” calls. It was set to notify and allow, but I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a false positive from it.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
I just set my phone’s anti-spam setting to block all “spam risk” calls. It was set to notify and allow, but I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a false positive from it.
Well, one of my spam risk calls a couple years ago came from my dentist’s office confirming an appointment. So I am skeptical about their reliability. I didn’t answer but fortunately they left a message.
re: #25 Dr. Matt
I have never heard of Garrett Ziegler. So I googled the little shit weasel.
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If you have any doubt about what a piece of shit Ziegler is…
In the 27-minute livestream, Ziegler used vulgar and misogynistic language to attack Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah Griffin, two women who worked for the Trump White House but have since publicly broken from the former President and cooperated with the January 6 panel.
He also accused the January 6 House select committee of being “anti-White,” without any evidence. (The nine-member panel is led by Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, who is Black.)
“They’re Bolsheviks,” Ziegler said in the stream, referring to the far-left communists who led the Soviet Union, “so, they probably do hate the American founders and most White people in general. This is a Bolshevistic anti-White campaign. If you can’t see that, your eyes are freaking closed. And so, they see me as a young Christian who they can try to basically scare, right?”
The livestream is audio-only, but the voice on the recording matches past videos of Ziegler. CNN has reached out to the January 6 committee and Ziegler’s attorney seeking comment.
At the White House, Ziegler was an aide to Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, who was charged with contempt of Congress for defying the panel’s subpoena. (He pleaded not guilty.)
The New York Times previously reported that Ziegler escorted some of Trump’s most controversial allies into the White House for the now-infamous December 2020 meeting where martial law was discussed. In Ziegler’s online postings, he disputed parts of the Times story.
On his Telegram channel, Ziegler continues to promote debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. He falsely claimed in recent posts that “the election was stolen” and that the January 6 attack on the US Capitol “was one of the greatest orchestrated false flags in history.”
re: #5 Charles Johnson
Her Milkshake brings the farage to the yard…
re: #21 PhillyPretzel ✅
I have a blocking feature on my landline phone (Panasonic). I also report said spammer on Find Who Calls You (dot) com.
In the past I was regularly reporting spam calls to the Do Not Call registry.
However, it’s so easy to spoof phone numbers (especially on internet/wifi calls)
that I don’t bother anymore. Often the phone numbers belong to people or legitimate businesses. It’s also why I don’t block the numbers on my phone. Doesn’t help since they rotate the “calling number” constantly.
Having said that, the number of spam calls I get has dramatically increased of late. It dropped off a bit after the phone companies were forced to implement validation of calling numbers before forwarding the calls into the network.
Spammers just switched to making local/wifi calls with legitimate phone numbers that are spoofed.
I’d block all numbers not on my contact lists, but I get calls from medical centers about my pacemaker reports, test results, etc. that I need to get. I usually just let folks leave a voice message and I’ll call back. But that can be time consuming (the person answering isn’t the one who called, leading to multiple contact attempts).
With regard to spoofed numbers, you can get off-the-shelf software that is intended to run test calls with allow you to enter the “calling” number you want to use. Seriously, you have no idea how easy it is to spoof numbers.
Oh look, the widow of Sheldon Adelson is dangling money in front of Trump to be even more hawkish/pro-israel.
Ok Tony…..
Your “Daily Bread”…..
Will you lose money one this deal? pic.twitter.com/VdGG6INnWz— TravisBlues 🦉🦉💙 (@Travisblues01) June 4, 2024
re: #19 Charles Johnson
Spammers can spoof numbers to make it look like they are calling from anywhere.
The DNC list won’t do shit about that.
re: #33 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Oh look, the widow of Sheldon Adelson is dangling money in front of Trump to be even more hawkish/pro-israel.
I saw something yesterday saying she may become one of his main benefactors. It would be a free for all for Israel to do what ever it wants with an open checkbook.
re: #38 Eclectic Cyborg
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We will, we will rock you…
The guy in the underground punching the Nazi is better. I don’t know if I still have that somewhere but it was highly satisfying.
re: #34 Dave In Austin
inquiring minds want to know how much Falon Gong cash wound up in Tony Perkins’ Swiss bank account 🤔
re: #39 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The guy in the underground punching the Nazi is better. I don’t know if I still have that somewhere but it was highly satisfying.
And there it is… Sorry it’s the Daily Fail.
SOOOOO satisfying. Mmm mmm good.
re: #20 Jay C
Well, seeing as how the only Republican “proposal” for the “immigration crisis” they keep babbling about in RW media is, basically, a version of the Maginot Line, with an East German-style “death strip” along the entirety of the US-Mexican border*, the most likely reaction will be, first, very loud rejection for being “inadequate”; insistence that ONLY a Trump Administration can properly deal with the “crisis”; and the usual Congressional follies which will serve mostly to highlight GOP unseriousness. IOW, business as usual….
*emphasis on the “death” part: RW “solutions” to immigration issues often tend to be rather bloodthirsty.
Don’t forget about their attempts to remove birthright citizenship from the 14th Amendment, and retroactively strip thousands of people of being US citizens and all rights conveyed to those individuals.
re: #8 Charles Johnson
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That little girl has guts. Her expression says she’s enjoying this cuz its the right thing to do.
I feel so sad for that poor innocent milkshake coming into contact with such a corrupted piece of ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream… 😪
New comic: How to tell a Carpenter Bee from a Bumble Bee. Thanks watchingbees.com for the help!
Support me on Patreon for more content: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon— Rosemary Mosco (@rosemarymosco.com) 2024-06-04T19:15:41.131Z
re: #48 Joe Bacon ✅
Projected to be 103 degrees…and you can bet that the groupies will gladly pay $20 for a bottle of Trump branded water!
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He’s going from mass spreader events to mass casualty events.
That’s a relief!
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-04T19:40:17.000Z
re: #48 Joe Bacon ✅
Projected to be 103 degrees…and you can bet that the groupies will gladly pay $20 for a bottle of Trump branded water!
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I’m rooting for heatstroke.
re: #308 steve_davis
It is not apartheid because Israel has palestinian arabs in its parliament. Israel offered the Palestinians East Jerusalem in 1947 for their capital. Palestinians responded by cutting off the water supply to West Jerusalem and spending the next 70 years attempting to drive Jews into the sea. I hope it absolutely eats up Palestinians every time they consider that they could have had a large country in 1948 with a capital in Jerusalem, prosperous countryside filled with orchards, while Israel would be a tiny little nation-state without enough room for an international airport, and that the reason why millions of Palestinians are living in camps is because they and their ancestors were mostly a bunch of religious bigots. Sorry, there’s my two cents’ worth. And yes, Israel has its religious bigots as well, but that’s hardly surprising, considering history. Territorial triumphalism kind of gets baked into everything when every conversation is about land.
No offense, but nobody cares what happenes in 1947. By “nobody” I mean my kids and from what they tell me, legions of their peers. I kind of agree with them. Why should I care about the petty reasons they are fighting when men, women and children are being killed through bombings and starvation?
In a situation where both sides are wrong I feel like we should be doing everything in our power to stop the fighting. That seems to be their postion as well.
I think teleskiguy mentioned a generational divide around here and I think there is some truth to that. Sometimes the broad historical context is used to excuse bad behavior.
I just realized that Nigel got milkshaked…and it didn’t bring all the boys to the yard...😏
re: #55 Axolotl
I think teleskiguy mentioned a generational divide around here and I think there is some truth to that. Sometimes the broad historical context is used to excuse bad behavior.
Until people start including their age in their nic, folks will be thrown in the ‘age category’ that ‘matches’ their opinions.
re: #57 wrenchwench
Do we have to include our sex too? /half
re: #58 PhillyPretzel ✅
Do we have to include our sex too? /half
There’s a lot we don’t know. And if we did, it might be wrong. /three-quarters
re: #55 Axolotl
As far as I know, Ski and I are two of the youngest lizards and we are both early 40s.
I think there is one or two who are in their 30s.
Hey Belafon, your local megachurch pastor, Josh Howerton, is in the news again. Interestingly, the reporting is in the Houston paper, not the Dallas Morning News.
Texas pastor’s controversial sermons have driven ‘hundreds’ away from church
Lakepointe Church Pastor Josh Howerton is accused of enabling a “coarse, arrogant culture” and of delivering far right, misogynistic messages.
By Eric Killelea, Religion ReporterJune 4, 2024Mary DeMuth, a literary agent and prolific author of Christian books, attended Lakepointe Church in suburban Dallas for more than 23 years before leaving in December after she alleged senior pastor Josh Howerton began routinely revealing misogynistic beliefs during Sunday sermons.
Amanda Cunningham, a former actor and model who went to Lakepointe for 12 years, cut ties with the megachurch in March after she said it apparently eliminated women’s ministries, even while Howerton invited men to watch sports at Lakepointe’s non-alcoholic tailgating events. And after Howerton told a now-infamous “old preacher joke” to the congregation about what women should do for their new husbands on their wedding nights.
Melissa Ware got out of Lakepointe just last month after learning Howerton allegedly plagiarized his apology to the congregation for the joke from a similar apology by a Florida pastor—and after church staff reportedly tried to manipulate a traffic study to get a traffic light installed near its entrance.
More at the link, but again, I can’t help but emphasize, this is not in the paper the upper-middle to upper class Dallasites would read, but the Houston paper.
re: #61 mmmirele
Great Work Pulpit Pimp Josh! Keep It Up! 🥳
re: #57 wrenchwench
Until people start including their age in their nic, folks will be thrown in the ‘age category’ that ‘matches’ their opinions.
The way it seems to me is that people older than me are stuck in the past and are unable to change and adapt in a changing world while people younger than me are naïve, idealistic and unrealistic children who don’t understand the real world as it is…………I walk a very fine line but everyone else is wrong, I am sure of it…….. :)
re: #6 Charles Johnson
That’s Nazi shithead Nigel Farage getting milkshaked.
She is apparently 25 years old and was arrested. I’m reminded of my friend who yeeted a Slushie at Matt Gaetz a few years back. She got 2 weeks in county jail and probation. Matt Gaetz wanted her to do 3 years Federal hard time.
re: #57 wrenchwench
Until people start including their age in their nic, folks will be thrown in the ‘age category’ that ‘matches’ their opinions.
While my chronological age may classify me as a “old”, I’m still the suave, dashing 23 year old at heart.
Having said that, do I have reason to be cynical based on life experiences?
I was a military brat living in Hof, Germany (the checkpoint for entry from West Germany to Berlin in East Germany) when Kennedy was assassinated. We all understood that if there was an attack, we were in the first defensive line. Scary time. From our rental, we could often see lights and hear explosions and machine gun fire from the border.
As a kid, I did drills that were supposed to “help” in a nuclear attack. Living on military bases, we understood the futility.
So yes, my life experiences and disappointment have left me cynical and believe it or not, even cranky.
However, I”ve never stopped in hoping and working for a better future. And my past experiences, while making me cynical, for provided a motivation to make the future better for my kids and grand kids.
We all evaluate reality through the lens of our life experiences. Don’t generalize folks, it’s disrespectful.
Yes.
Admit that your God is Ayn Rand you liar!
‘I worship God’: Greene melts down again after attacking Fauci in profane lie-filled rant
In a profane rant filled with lies and false accusations, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) unleashed a venomous screed in the halls of Congress attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci, the retired immunologist who served as the public face of the federal government’s battle against the COVID pandemic, just after she had attacked him face-to-face during a House committee hearing Monday.
“The media worships George Floyd. Democrats worship George Floyd, there were riots burning down the f*cking country over George Floyd and Raskin’s in there say we worship him. Excuse me, let me correct you, and this is really important. I don’t worship, I worship God, God, and Jesus is my Savior. I don’t worship President Trump, and I’m really sick and tired of the b*llsh*t antics I have to deal with constantly from the Democrats.”
Wow what an Xtian!
re: #67 A Cranky One
The opening I needed.
We all evaluate reality through the lens of our life experiences. Don’t generalize folks, it’s disrespectful.
Generalizing is never, ever appropriate. Never.
no sarc tag big enough
re: #68 Joe Bacon ✅
Her current god is Donald Trump.
there were riots burning down the f*cking country over George Floyd
Parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul damaged is not the entire country burning down.
re: #20 Jay C
*emphasis on the “death” part: RW “solutions” to
immigrationall issues often tend to be rather bloodthirsty.
FTFY.
re: #69 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
I wound up with many cicadas on me when shooting this. Six came in with me. I got four of them back out in one piece.
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Have only observed one or two cicadas on my morning walks the past several days.
Apparently Nashville is in the egg stage of the cicadian life cycle.
Only the Sith deal in absolutes, and I hear they’re pretty old.
re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg
That won’t stop them from screaming when St. Peter pushes the down button.
Just blocked another Mastodon reply guy who really wanted to tell me how horrible and evil Dr. Fauci was.
I suspect sock puppetry.
re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg
Christian belief system asserts that there is a Judgement day that is rigged!
It’s like the foundational selling point of Christianity.
How do people miss this?
Nothing left but to aggravate the judge prior to the sentencing.
Convicted felon wishes to resume inciting violence.
Trump asks judge to terminate gag order in hush money case | CNN Politics
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-04T20:55:20.000Z
Pimsleur is great for many things, but I’m at lesson 17 and I’ve been buying booze and counting Euros for roughly 4 lessons now. This IS actually useful. I’m never going to be sitting in a bar worrying about euros, but they do a pretty thorough job of running through all the d’, de, du, des, de la crap that french insists on. It’s all right. My accent actually isn’t horrible. I’m never gonna have a perfect french “r” because I don’t smoke or drink enough to create phlegm on demand, but I’m hoping I get the equivalent sexiness of French people speaking English, just going the other direction.
re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg
These fucking people…
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Yeah, but I’m not sure the person who created that meme will like how those results end up.
The album cover images I’m getting from the Apple Music API are MUCH higher resolution than Amazon’s shitty 300x300 images.
re: #83 Dave In Austin
As he said Swamp them with votes. Translation: stuff the ballot box.
re: #55 Axolotl
I think teleskiguy mentioned a generational divide around here and I think there is some truth to that. Sometimes the broad historical context is used to excuse bad behavior.
I came in the middle of that last night noped the eff out. I was kinda surprised at the “Fuck Gen X” vitriol. I do remember being a teen and being told we would be the generation to finally get past racism and bigotry, and then I see guys like Hawley or Cruz (who I think he name checked) and I’m like “Yeah, we dropped the ball on that one.”
So it’s not like he didn’t have a point, but there was something else going on with him there. He came in hot and was still going at it full throttle when I closed the page. Hope the dude is okay.
re: #51 Charles Johnson
White girls all look the same to me
re: #85 Charles Johnson
The album cover images I’m getting from the Apple Music API are MUCH higher resolution than Amazon’s shitty 300x300 images.
Amazon music is dead to me. I decided to listen to a Slade album Apple didn’t have because I’ve got prime so I get Music Prime as part of that, and apparently it is impossible to listen to an album without having the tracks scrambled. Fuck that.
re: #85 Charles Johnson
The album cover images I’m getting from the Apple Music API are MUCH higher resolution than Amazon’s shitty 300x300 images.
Check out musicbrainz.org too, they have decent resolution images for album covers as well :)
re: #84 Mike Lamb
Yeah, but I’m not sure the person who created that meme will like how those results end up.
They’ll just wind up dead like the rest of us. People who lie about an “afterlife” can’t actually deliver. It’s a grift.
Wow. This seems like a big thing. We know rents are skyrocketing everywhere, way past what they should regardless of claims of too limited housing. Turns out that rent, like supposed “inflation” is greed on top of greed.
From CNN: AT&T is having problems completing calls from their service to other services. According to Down Detector NYC Philly Chicago Dallas Pittsburgh and Indianapolis are among the cities with the most reports of issues.
re: #67 A Cranky One
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I was a military brat living in Hof, Germany (the checkpoint for entry from West Germany to Berlin in East Germany) when Kennedy was assassinated. We all understood that if there was an attack, we were in the first defensive line. Scary time. From our rental, we could often see lights and hear explosions and machine gun fire from the border.…
Wife was a teen living in Vilsek when the wall went up. Life is fair, she got to meet SGT Presley.
re: #73 jaunte
Parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul damaged is not the entire country burning down.
and didn’t the Minneapolis arson turn out to be some Texas Proud Boy who was trying to set up BLM to get blamed for shit they didn’t do?
re: #92 allegro
Wow. This seems like a big thing. We know rents are skyrocketing everywhere, way past what they should regardless of claims of too limited housing. Turns out that rent, like supposed “inflation” is greed on top of greed.
In the end, no market is truly competitive. It’s only a question of how many manipulators ever get caught.
re: #96 sagehen
and didn’t the Minneapolis arson turn out to be some Texas Proud Boy who was trying to set up BLM to get blamed for shit they didn’t do?
Yuuuuuup….like in a lot of the country (like Seattle, for example…)
re: #48 Joe Bacon ✅
Projected to be 103 degrees…and you can bet that the groupies will gladly pay $20 for a bottle of Trump branded water!
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Right next to the airport with jets landing every 2 minutes.