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  1. Really frustrating moment during an interview of John Kirby by Willie Geist on Morning Joe today. In what looked like a totally staged question, Geist mentioned accusations of Israel committing genocide in Gaza and asked Kirby if he’d seen evidence of genocide in Gaza. Kirby of course said no, no, there’s no evidence of genocide in Gaza. Israeli soldiers aren’t getting up every morning, putting on their boots and saying I’m going to see how many civilians I can kill today. (Not a direct quote but that was the gist.) So no, Willie, there’s no genocide.

    Um, what about the tens of thousands of dead Palestinians? Women and children? More than 30 times as many Palestinians have been killed than Israelis who were killed by Hamas on 10/7. Cities have been leveled. They’re blocking aid and trying to starve the population. The killing isn’t about to stop. I see a whole lot of evidence of genocide.

    I get the political reality, that you can’t say yes, they’re committing genocide. But Jesus, don’t be so fucking clumsy and transparent in your denial. That show gets pretty heavy-handed in their full-throated defense of Israel (while still being highly critical of Netanyahu).

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  2. 7 hours ago, troph said:

    You shove an empty pringles can up in there? Mother of god I had no idea.  

    That’s not how fisting works. I think you’re missing the concept. 

  3. On 4/19/2024 at 12:04 PM, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    unless you are doing louisiana stuff, green bell peppers serve no purpose.

    Denver omelettes. Pizza. Szechuan chicken. Pepper steak. Philly steak sandwiches. Italians like to stuff them.

    I’ve used them in my experiments with gallo pinto. (I’ve also used red.)

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    Pretty tasty.

  4. I picked up my habaneros (I’ll probably only pot one but they came in threes) a couple days ago and decided to also get a ghost pepper. That will be a first. I called back to the garden center for some additional info and learned they have scorpion peppers too. I just didn’t walk far enough down the aisle to find them. I’ll go back this weekend or so to get one of those. Very excited about that.

    They said they’ll be getting Carolina Reapers in. I’m not sure I want to bother with those on top of the other peppers. Maybe that’s too much to manage and my dehydrator is probably going to be working overtime as it is. But maybe I should get one anyway since the opportunity is there. I wouldn’t necessarily have to transplant it and put it outdoors. I could just maintain it and maybe flower it indoors under lights next winter. 

  5. 19 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    I'll drive an electric car, give up riding gas-powered motorcycles, recycle, quit using plastic, etc.  But fuck giving up animal protein.  Ain't. Gonna. Happen. 

    Username checks out?

    I eat a lot less beef than I used to. I eat mostly chicken and pork. Sometimes I’ll go days without eating meat. Not out of a sense of moral responsibility or anything. Just a matter of ease and convenience. I can get by pretty well on fruit and nuts. I eat lots of apples and bananas and snack on peanuts daily. (And haven’t had a cold or anything else since before the pandemic)

    But yeah, I’m never giving up meat. I’m just one person. I don’t have kids. (Glad I don’t have to explain to them how their grandparents, aunt, and uncle are on the side of the people who royally fucked their environment…and their schools…) Yeah, I know it’s a little bit of a cop out but I’m making some changes and trying to advocate for more major change, the kind that can make a real difference. I try to avoid big industrial meat products as best as I can. The more local, the better. I’m sure I could be more rigorous about it than I am. But I won’t touch chicken from Tyson or Perdue. 

  6. 6 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Let’s stop beating around the bush and have some people admit that they either don’t understand or don’t give a shit that the continued cultivation of cows (especially), pigs, chickens, and other livestock is decimating our environment. DECIMATING.  
     

    Yeah, I love steak too man. Burgers are good. Chicken wings are a staple!  I get it. BUT. Just take it down a notch. No one has a knife to your throat saying you have to eat tempeh 6 days a week and you have to go to Whole Foods to buy kale to shove in your wife’s pussy before you can fuck it. Though I am open minded. 
     

    My point is “eh, I don’t really want to go to plant based or lab grown meat because it’s weird” is a stupid and fucked up argument. It’s a moral imperative to stop eating that shit all the time. And the alternatives already taste good and are only going to get better. 
     

    Eat up buttercups!  The next step if you don’t is fucking Soylent green. 

    Our use of fossil fuels is the number one problem. If we don’t address that then switching to vegetarianism, which I am never going to do, won’t amount to much. Yes, the livestock issue is a problem. It’s not the main problem. And we’re not doing much to address the main problem.

    Jesus, we have a former president, who’s running for president again, who denies that global warming is real and is still chanting “Drill, baby, drill!”

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    If Trump actually said this, it's a great response to sleepy-gate.  Of course, its an unnamed source, so its probably someone at the Bulwark coming up with what Trump should have said.

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    And you couldn’t be bothered to post a link to your admittedly questionably sourced quote. 

  8. 3 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    I wish that the fine could escalate.   $1,000 for the average person is a lot.   Even for cash strapped Trump, that's nothing.  But if it escalated each time by a factor, that might shut his ass up.  But the current NY state law doesn't allow for that.

    1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, 16000, 32000 and so on would put him in a world of hurt fairly quickly if he hit double digit contempt comments.

    He didn’t stop defaming E. Jean Carroll after her second lawsuit cost him $83 Million, up from $5 Million for the first one.

    He’s a fucking child. He can’t help himself. He’s obnoxious and obscene and uncivilized. It’s who he is. He’ll never stop being a foul-mouthed lowlife.

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  9. On 6/21/2018 at 11:02 PM, Stella Link said:

    That will be good for one, maybe two shows tops.  Then, ratings will nose-dive and it will be cancelled.

    How’s that prediction working out for ya there, Stella?

    Not that I think the show doesn’t suck but they’re currently airing their sixth season. 

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  10. 3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

     

    Fucking die already, Mitch. You know damn well it was Trump and that everything ties back to Trump and Russia and you were totally fine with it because you value power and party over the constitution. 

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  11. On 4/22/2024 at 10:08 AM, Nivek said:

    It might be.  But I think it is more reasonable.   He is a career politician and this is a known strategy.  Give credit for something to someone, let them bask in the glory of something they didn't do in order to try to get them to continue on that path.   Only he is not dealing with a normal person, he is dealing with conman who has the attention span of a syphilitic squirrel.   

    He’s a sycophant. Nothing more. 

  12. 28 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

    Just about everyone is head and shoulder above Trump.  But Biden has to be on the same stage with Trump in one or more National Debates.   You feeling good about those debates?

     

    Yes. He wrecked Trump the last time they were on the debate stage. Did you miss that?

    If you can’t tell that Biden is head-and-shoulders above Trump in terms of mental acuity, not to mention competence to do the job, then you’re either a child or a fucking moron. 

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  13. 1 hour ago, LTbear said:

    Son, untwist your britches. Being aware or not aware of people in this grand story isn't an all or nothing/ black or white situation.

    Untwist yours, bub. Nothing wrong with not knowing. Getting belligerent in defense of one’s ignorance is Republican territory.

    If you’re not familiar with Devin Nunes’ cow then there’s probably a whole lot more that you don’t know about his role in the Trump-Russia collusion scandal. I don’t think you could’ve been following along while all of that was playing out without knowing about it.

  14. 35 minutes ago, LTbear said:

    I already have too many (vastly more important) things vying for my attention.

    Then how have you ever heard the name “Devin Nunes” in the first place or about his role in the Trump-Russia-collusion-coverup and consequent payoff with an executive position in Trump’s fake Twitter enterprise?

  15. 3 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    Also, when this first was announced, I remember thinking, like most people probably, that this would become an annual event of short runs at the Sphere for Phish.  Same owner as MSG and obviously, they have they relationship.  But after seeing it first hand, I'm guessing the amount of work that goes into this to make these performances unique is, suffice it to say, a ridiculous feat.  They surely will play there again, but I'd be surprised if it's with any sort of regularity.

    They upped the ante for Dead & Co. 

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  16. No Reba at the Sphere?!?!

    Goddamnit. God Fucking Damn You Trey. What the fuck?

    Ah, well. It’s not like they could top this one:

    Phish has an unusual distinction in that I can say they played both the best and the worst concerts I’ve ever seen. 

  17. Saw a piece on CBS Saturday Morning about Phish’s gig at the Sphere. I didn’t know they were just the second band to perform there after U2. It really is a Phishy thing for them to do.

     

    Hey, look. They posted a long interview. Way to go, CBS.

     

     

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