From Feb 4th 1939
From Feb 4th 1939
The air feels fresher today.
i'm so glad i live the kind of life where i don't have to be mad about Cracker Barrels
Ah, see, I knew someone would be along to correct my blather! Thank you.
This stupid world: The guy who is having veterans arrested for vagrancy is going to honor Rambo. Come on… www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Hark! A vagrant!
Right, that’s exactly it, it’s mostly a very fast, sort of clever search engine. But when I use a search engine, I know that I’m gonna get some results from dingbats as well as useful information. This abstracts the search, and the name gives the results authority that they don’t deserve.
Absolutely fuck yes.
That skit resonated strongly with me!
I’ll look that up now!
Also, when I was in college, at one point I actually was acquainted with 20+ guys named Dave.
I have to admit that I know nothing about Aramaic or how common a name Judas was (or even if it’s Aramaic). But I listen to a lot of history podcasts and it’s often that they have to clarify that “it’s not the person ‘X’ that we were discussing a minute ago, but someone else with the same name.”
It was the Aramaic equivalent of “Dave”.
Um, excuse me, but your comment is literally REPLYING to Marc Elias.
LOL, I scrolled down two posts and came across “AI is fucking up Excel”! defector.com/it-took-many...
I try to tell people that AI is polling the internet for information, and that the internet is full of shit. I see frequently see people spouting incorrect information because they “asked ChatGPT”. If there is a common misconception, and not much online pushback, AI is going believe it.
Perfect.
How do you not get that that was a joke?
I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.
There is also a weird subculture of salsa in Germany!
I’m missing the part where he opposed trans people’s right to exist in public. I’m not saying that you’re wrong, but can you give me a link or citation or something? I only know of his stupid platforming of Charlie Kirk.
Yep. I’m a drunk guy who enjoys linguistics and arguing. I just think we need better messaging. But you are correct on this comment you made.
It’s part of the way they’re using it, for sure. It’s a double-entendre using your powerful advocacy for trans rights while using the specter of Xtians as an implied critique of your position.
It is bad about what he said about trans athletes, but a right and a wrong not balancing out is not the same as a right and a wrong making two wrongs.
I don’t know anything about that person, or what they support, but lower-case “evangelical” is an adjective used to describe someone who advocates and disseminates an idea or philosophy. A person can be an evangelist of communism, for instance, though nobody would ever use that phrase.
No. It was when he was the mayor of San Francisco. He ordered the city clerk to start issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. The California Legislature was later.
Never? I mean, he legalized marriage before marriage was legalized.
He sounds as good as mine, who had live weekly demonstrations of how different types of accidental explosions were caused (on purpose, he wasn’t a klutz). The best was his demonstration of the flammability of fine particulates in grain elevators. He took a chunk out of the acoustic ceiling tile.
Hereward?
My wife’s shows have taught me to be suspicious if she’s purchasing antifreeze, growing oleander, and making me sweet beverages.
It’s one of my favorites! A porn star and brains in jars? What’s not to like?
This is nice and all, but do you have a citation for all this stuff, other than a random GIF?
This is one of the most sensible explanations that I have ever heard.
I think they’re referring to the “kikel”, the Yiddish word for circle. It’s what illiterate Jewish immigrants would sign on documents at Elis Island, because they didn’t want to sign with an X, since it looked like a cross. The triangle for Christians, is of course, referring to the Holy Trinity.
You see, that was a sarcastic post. Because those things don’t exist.
That’s PRESIDENT Turdangler Slumpgudgeon!
If this were truly a just world, Donald Trump would be named Turdangler Slumpgudgeon.
Damn, Atlanta and Oakland, CA must be sister cities.
Additionally, Trump reinstating the death penalty (PDF): www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
I mean, you know that you can go to the reference section on each article and find where they are getting the information from. Wikipedia is actually fairly reliable if you use the references. Moratorium on federal death penalty cases: www.justice.gov/archives/opa... Biden commutes sentences:
That is a very complicated question. Yes, Trump reinstated the federal death penalty the first time he was in office, and killed 13 prisoners. Then Biden commuted the sentences of most prisoners on federal death row. In any case, it’s very rare. It’s easier just to read the Wiki on it.
Death penalty laws are state by state.
We are in California. Technically we still have the death penalty, but nobody has been executed since 2006. There is both a court order against it by the California Supreme Court, and the Governor put a moratorium on it in 2019.
"My photographer got hit twice by less than lethal rounds and he's got blood on one of his arms and we just took off running with the entire crowd. It was absolutely chaotic."
Yes.
Wait, are you telling me that when Donald Trump promises to release that information, he was LYING?!?!? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
It wasn’t a secret. We have known about this for about six years.
That’s kinda unfair to the National Guard troops. They didn’t sign up for this.
How did they miss the chance to code name the DEA “Coke”? IT WAS RIGHT THERE!
but that is just discussion; not policy. He claims most ACLU policy is now directed at fighting Trump, not defending free speech. What neither he nor you grasp, is that the ACLU defends ALL civil liberties, and Trump is trampling the Constitution. So yeah, they’re busy on other fronts…
…rightwing organizations like the NRA, and dipshits like Milo Yiannopoulos. Most of the rest of that article (that is, that pertains to the ACLU) seems to be about internal arguments over policy direction for a large civil rights organization. The people he cites are holding one opinion (2/3)
I just read that whole thing. Most of Greenwald’s criticism of the ACLU seems to be directed at Strangio’s comments, which bear on censorship in the private enterprise space. I’m not defending that, but that is tangential to the ACLU’s mission. He in fact points out that the ACLU still defends (1/3)
This is a discussion about the Supreme Court, not “form(s) of govt”. Also, communism is an economic system, not a form of government by itself.
The ACLU doesn’t have a “side”.
Wow, check out their followers. So many emojis! I think half of them must be outrage bots designed to engage non-MAGA Boomers and chumps.
So, most of those are nice, sort of historical nods to each state’s past. And then you get to Tennessee…
Yeah they are!
Editing to update the URL: icelist.is
Saving this so I can read the whole thread later.
I’m not really into figuring out how the US military can be more effective at fighting wars. Nonetheless, this is an interesting article showing yet again how the US keeps screwing up military interventions.
Also to add, World War II through Viet Nam had the draft. So more upper class and middle class people served in the military, so there was a chance to develop empathy with people who weren’t from the same economic background. Now we just have a de facto draft on the poor.
Well, I’m kinda pulling this out of my ass; but there was an American economic hegemony. Germany and Japan weren’t competing with US cars, and OPEC wasn’t competing with US oil companies. So they felt more secure, I’d imagine. Also, IRS enforcement was probably a lot stronger.
Aw, is this your rewrite of your story blaming him for the 3% rent increase on rent controlled apartments, even though he isn’t even the mayor-elect? You know, that story you yanked from your feed once you had that pointed out. This shit is why I canceled my subscription last month.
They were paying 90% on the top margin, not even their whole income.
German capitalizes *all* nouns; it is not random. This person capitalized both “Politics” (noun) and “Targeted” (verb). That isn’t German grammar.
Why are you randomly capitalizing words the way Donald Trump does?
That sounds like my hillbilly ex-brother-in-law. 8th grade dropout from Mississippi; he refers to multi-syllable words as “mayonnaise words”. As in, “why’re you using mayonnaise words, are you trying to sound smart”? “No Jason, I’m just saying ‘recalcitrant’, I’m not trying to trick you”.
Merkley had a pretty effective day. Or will have, if you make this go viral.
Oh lawdy!
Yes, and also - at what point in NYC's history does Miller think it *didn't* have a significant immigrant population? What's the year in which NYC "defined US dominance" by *not* having a ton of people migrating to and through its boroughs?
Nah, you weird, Captain Ratio.
Washington got rid of state run booze shops over a decade ago. I was there around the time that they switched over. It was a pain in the ass, because all of the new stores were afraid to take my “out of state” driver’s license in case they broke a law. I was in my mid-40s!
The Reapers? I’m Commander Shepard and this is my favorite chili on the station.
This seems like a worthy project. icelist.info/agents/
icelist.info/agents/
The angry character is called “The Snoid”, and is sort of a manifestation of Crumb’s misanthropic nature, if you’re looking for the original material. It will be a bit of a search, since Crumb was/is quite prolific.
It’s a Robert Crumb cartoon.
Ha, he’s *literally* looking down his nose!
Seriously. I’m damn near 60 years old, and I’m fucking sick of Boomers and most of my GenX peers fucking up the damn country. I’m on the West Coast, but damn bet that I would be voting for Mamdani if I were in NYC.
Ha, accurate!
Thanks for this. I’m glad I don’t have any of those tags. I’d be able to see them on myself, right?
If you ban Calvin and Hobbes you’re a straight up fascist son of a bitch and that’s that
No? There isn’t, short of them physically going out and fighting them. Have you already forgotten that the California National Guard is currently under the control of the Federal Government? How did you forget that?
Yeah, no shit. Do you not understand that the Federal Government overrules State governments? Newsom and the State are already fighting this battle in court, so what is your point?
What does this question even mean? I presume that you aren’t American.
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.
Oh shit, I just necroposted, sorry.
Yes, no alliums. Hence also no onions or leeks. Or shallots, scallions or chives. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium
Soooo, less than a pound.
Weren’t the bad guys Albanian though?
Oh I agree. And the way John DeLancie introduced them, with his soft undertone of menace. “Con permiso, Capitan, the hall is rented, the orchestra engaged. Now it’s time to see if you can dance.”
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I saw you carrying this sign yesterday! Well done.
I don’t know how well this would work if you’re alone, but if there are several folks on scene it would be worth it.
Yes, thank you.
Fuckn onions…
Holy crap, you’re right! I can tell you that, speaking as a sighted person, that ALT text is as good as, or better than, the picture itself!
That’s called “de-escalation”, where you reassure the person having an infantile freak out that things are okay and nobody is mad at them. It’s what *the police* are supposed to be trained to do, but, welp, here we are…