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  1. It started erupting again over the weekend. If anyone needs a break, a guy is doing a live stream with his drone right now.
  2. There's a pretty decent movie called "Furioza" on Netflix about organized crime and a Polish soccer gang. It's fictional, but it resembles what I imagine.
  3. Off my game this morning. Wordle 1,003 3/6 πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #281 πŸŸͺ🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦πŸŸͺ🟩πŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺ🟦🟦 Daily Quordle 784 7️⃣5️⃣ 6️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ClickWord.org Daily 408: 393 points (top 50% 🎈) 13 words: βš›οΈπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸ₯🟧🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩 πŸ’ͺ Best word: 104 points πŸ”₯ Streak: 3 days #ClickWord #ClickWordDaily408
  4. By all accounts, Iran was surprised by the raid/massacre/attack. Yes, they'd been supplying weapons, training, and planning, but from what I've read, they didn't expect it to happen when it did. Hezbollah was also surprised, and both Iran and Hezbollah told Hamas they're pretty much on their own in this conflict after Hamas requested assistance. However, that doesn't mean there wasn't some other plan for the future that would've been more coordinated among the Axis. Some of the benefits that Iran may see, depending on how things shake out: Weakened Western support for the nation of Israel (this has already happened to Bibi's government); Stalled, delayed, or canceled normalization of ties between Israel/Saudi Arabia, which could eventually lead to an Israeli/Sunni alliance against Iran; More chaos (the "ladder") in the Middle East, which Iran has successfully climbed since W stupidly decided to invade Iraq. There might be more, but that's from just the top of my head.
  5. The Kush and Richard Grenell (Trump's former ambassador to Germany who cozied up to the fascist AfD Party) want to build a hotel in Belgrade, Serbia. Not coincidentally, Trump also wanted to build one on the same site. Sleazy conflict of interest shit. @MisterP should be concerned about it. Kushner Deal in Serbia Follows Earlier Interest by Trump More than a decade ago, before running for president, Donald Trump expressed interest in developing the same site in Belgrade that his son-in-law now plans to invest $500 million in rebuilding. The plan by Jared Kushner and his business partners to redevelop a prized location in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, echoes interest from Donald J. Trump a decade ago in pursuing a deal for the site and a similar proposal pushed during his White House term by a top aide now working with Mr. Kushner, a review of the project shows. The tentative agreement between the Kushner team and the Serbian government would grant Mr. Kushner’s investment firm a 99-year lease, at no charge, and the right to build a luxury hotel and apartment complex and a museum on the site of the former headquarters of the Yugoslav Ministry of Defense in Belgrade, which was bombed by NATO in 1999. A draft outline of the agreement was provided to The New York Times by a Serbian official. In 2013, two years before he began running for president, Mr. Trump β€” Mr. Kushner’s father-in-law β€” told a top Serbian government official that he wanted to build a luxury hotel on the site. Associates of the Trump Organization traveled to Belgrade to inspect the location. The project did not come together before Mr. Trump’s election in 2016, and after being sworn in he vowed to not do any new foreign deals. But developing the site would again draw interest from Mr. Trump’s circle. Richard Grenell, whom Mr. Trump had appointed as a special envoy in the Balkans, pushed a related plan during the Trump administration that Serbia and the United States jointly work to rebuild the Defense Ministry site. He argued in favor of using American investments to transform the Belgrade site while he was still serving in his official capacity as an American diplomat in 2020, according to transcripts and a recording of remarks made during several government news conferences. Link for rest of the piece. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/us/politics/kushner-deal-serbia-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU0.hhFM.CuNDxnbvQbik&smid=url-share
  6. You getting defensive over a picture of a lady that fucks someone else is the weirdest thing I've seen this week. So there's that. He gives off the same vibes as that guy who used to post about dating Colombians in IPIHB.
  7. This is an important read. How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online. In the wake of the riot on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, a groundswell built in Washington to rein in the onslaught of lies that had fueled the assault on the peaceful transfer of power. Social media companies suspended Donald J. Trump, then the president, and many of his allies from the platforms they had used to spread misinformation about his defeat and whip up the attempt to overturn it. The Biden administration, Democrats in Congress and even some Republicans sought to do more to hold the companies accountable. Academic researchers wrestled with how to strengthen efforts to monitor false posts. Mr. Trump and his allies embarked instead on a counteroffensive, a coordinated effort to block what they viewed as a dangerous effort to censor conservatives. They have unquestionably prevailed. Gifted link for full article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/us/politics/trump-disinformation-2024-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU0.qbTu.Bvtberf3zN0d&smid=url-share
  8. Wordle 1,002 4/6 πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #280 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ Daily Quordle 783 9️⃣4️⃣ 7️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟨⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ClickWord.org Daily 407: 483 points (top 30% πŸŽ‰) 11 words: βš›οΈπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸ₯πŸŸ₯πŸŸ₯🟨🟨🟨 πŸ’ͺ Best word: 134 points πŸ”₯ Streak: 2 days #ClickWord #ClickWordDaily407
  9. I genuinely liked that movie when it came out, but I haven't seen it since. A half-Persian friend of my ex-wife was in charge of their wardrobe. Maybe I wouldn't have liked it if she hadn't been such a cutie. The most embarrassing movie I like is Hangar 18, but it holds a sentimental attachment because it was filmed at the recently closed Webb AFB in my hometown when I was a kid. It was kind of a big deal. Ol' Gary had an affair with a local educator while filming, and it was quite the local scandal. Full movie:
  10. My sister lives in Denver, so we've been going up there about once a year since the early 90s. And, yeah, the Mexican food is lacking. It seems theirs came from New Mexico (hence the green chilis) rather than Texas.
  11. Here are the top 50 metros ranked by population, according to the latest estimates. I moved here in 1996 for grad school, the year that the Austin metro topped 1 million for the first time. Since the Census estimates are always for the month of July, it's easy to imagine we've hit 2.5 million by this point. Just in the last three years, Austin has lept past Sacramento and Pittsburgh and is now ranked 26th. In very short order (if not already), we'll have replaced Portland for the 25th spot, right behind San Antonio. If the trends from the last three years hold (that period included Covid, which was weird for migration patterns, so take that into account), we'll be beyond St. Louis and Baltimore and within spitting distance of SA by 2030. Denver's slower growth is somewhat surprising, which could mean Denver, San Antonio, and Austin will all be in the same-ish ballpark at 21, 22, and 23. It's highly doubtful we'll catch up with Charlotte or Orlando by then, but we won't be too far off the mark. In the meantime, DFW will likely replace Chicago for the 3rd spot by the end of the decade. As an aside, Buffalo will drop out of the top 50 metro areas by 2030. How long do y'all think they'll hold onto the Bills as the smallest market? Green Bay doesn't count because of its ownership structure. rank 2020 2023 % chg # chg 2020 2023 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metro Area 19,990,547 19,498,249 -2.5% -492,298 1 1 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metro Area 13,178,547 12,799,100 -2.9% -379,447 2 2 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Metro Area 9,435,217 9,262,825 -1.8% -172,392 3 3 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area 7,666,418 8,100,037 5.7% 433,619 4 4 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX Metro Area 7,168,723 7,510,253 4.8% 341,530 5 5 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area 6,120,849 6,307,261 3.0% 186,412 9 6 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area 6,260,311 6,304,975 0.7% 44,664 6 7 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area 6,241,967 6,246,160 0.1% 4,193 7 8 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metro Area 6,133,365 6,183,199 0.8% 49,834 8 9 Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ Metro Area 4,875,246 5,070,110 4.0% 194,864 11 10 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area 4,933,650 4,919,179 -0.3% -14,471 10 11 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area 4,606,384 4,688,053 1.8% 81,669 13 12 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area 4,740,838 4,566,961 -3.7% -173,877 12 13 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metro Area 4,385,248 4,342,304 -1.0% -42,944 14 14 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metro Area 4,027,804 4,044,837 0.4% 17,033 15 15 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area 3,694,114 3,712,020 0.5% 17,906 16 16 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area 3,187,828 3,342,963 4.9% 155,135 18 17 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area 3,295,298 3,269,973 -0.8% -25,325 17 18 Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Metro Area 2,970,119 3,005,131 1.2% 35,012 19 19 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metro Area 2,842,668 2,834,316 -0.3% -8,352 20 20 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area 2,680,491 2,817,933 5.1% 137,442 22 21 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area 2,669,651 2,805,115 5.1% 135,464 23 22 St. Louis, MO-IL Metro Area 2,819,212 2,796,999 -0.8% -22,213 21 23 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area 2,568,526 2,703,999 5.3% 135,473 24 24 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro Area 2,518,160 2,508,050 -0.4% -10,110 25 25 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX Metro Area 2,300,135 2,473,275 7.5% 173,140 28 26 Pittsburgh, PA Metro Area 2,455,323 2,422,725 -1.3% -32,598 26 27 Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA Metro Area 2,400,029 2,420,608 0.9% 20,579 27 28 Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV Metro Area 2,274,887 2,336,573 2.7% 61,686 29 29 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Metro Area 2,251,974 2,271,479 0.9% 19,505 30 30 Kansas City, MO-KS Metro Area 2,195,218 2,221,343 1.2% 26,125 31 31 Columbus, OH Metro Area 2,141,895 2,180,271 1.8% 38,376 33 32 Cleveland, OH Metro Area 2,184,115 2,158,932 -1.2% -25,183 32 33 Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN Metro Area 2,092,745 2,138,468 2.2% 45,723 34 34 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area 2,021,744 2,102,573 4.0% 80,829 35 35 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area 1,995,698 1,945,767 -2.5% -49,931 36 36 Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Metro Area 1,781,712 1,787,169 0.3% 5,457 37 37 Jacksonville, FL Metro Area 1,612,981 1,713,240 6.2% 100,259 39 38 Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metro Area 1,673,216 1,677,803 0.3% 4,587 38 39 Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI Metro Area 1,574,476 1,560,424 -0.9% -14,052 40 40 Raleigh-Cary, NC Metro Area 1,417,455 1,509,231 6.5% 91,776 42 41 Oklahoma City, OK Metro Area 1,429,940 1,477,926 3.4% 47,986 41 42 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN Metro Area 1,362,955 1,365,557 0.2% 2,602 43 43 Richmond, VA Metro Area 1,316,646 1,349,732 2.5% 33,086 45 44 Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metro Area 1,346,172 1,335,674 -0.8% -10,498 44 45 Salt Lake City-Murray, UT Metro Area 1,260,338 1,267,864 0.6% 7,526 46 46 Birmingham, AL Metro Area 1,181,776 1,184,290 0.2% 2,514 47 47 Fresno, CA Metro Area 1,165,897 1,180,020 1.2% 14,123 48 48 Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI Metro Area 1,151,502 1,162,950 1.0% 11,448 50 49 Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY Metro Area 1,164,468 1,155,604 -0.8% -8,864 49 50
  12. Uh, this should be a really fucking big deal, but I'm not finding any mention of it from trusted news sources. Can anyone find something on this?
  13. Barack Obama is descended from the first documented slave in America...on his mother's side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Punch_(slave)
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