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MC Fresh Breath

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  1. 40 minutes ago, Derka said:

    there is absolutely nothing new about the common folk hating the evil people and celebrating their downfall. if that’s “sick” to you then there might not be a place for you anywhere.

    Since I generated some flak in a moment I'll answer you. I feel speculation on people's sexual affairs post their losing a spouse, no matter how horrendous the spouse was, reflects on the people making the speculations.  

    https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/10/31/erika-kirk-jd-vance-affair/


    It is just internet troll over analysis buffoonery.  But it is indeed ever present so your last sentence might be correct.  I also don't care for gore, so maybe that's a me thing.  I'll back out now.

  2. 'All this does is just ruin families': Portland man detained by ICE outside hardware store, now at facility in Texas

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    Vazquez said his father was at the hardware store to pick up a mop head on his way to work as a janitor, a job he's had for more than 25 years.

    "Some of them were questioning the ICE agents, asking them why he was being arrested and they were lying to them, saying that my dad has warrants and that he's a criminal when my dad has no warrants," Vazquez said. "He's just a good guy. He doesn't do anything in this world besides just try to help out his family here and they just took him like that. They just basically kidnapped him and now he's gone."

     

     

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    Although not a U.S. citizen, Vincent said Orlando was in the states on a valid work permit.

    https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/immigration-news/portland-man-detained-by-ice-outside-hardware-store-now-at-facility-in-texas/283-2fac3510-597e-4219-a0de-e9579f6e0ef5

     

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  3. Have not read this thread so sorry if this is repeat info.  Free trial expired so I hit cancel in the iPhone subscription section and got offered two more months at 5.99/month.  So maybe a way to save a few for those interested.

     

     

  4. "Exclusive: OpenAI lays groundwork for juggernaut IPO at up to $1 trillion valuation"

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    Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar has told some associates the company is aiming for a 2027 listing, the people said. But some advisers predict it could come even sooner, around late 2026.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-lays-groundwork-juggernaut-ipo-up-1-trillion-valuation-2025-10-29/

    Now I am a stock market dummy.  A true 'just put it in an index fund and hope for the best' kind of person.  But the internet tells me plenty of very profitable companies took a long time to reach this valuation.

     

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  5. 1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

    Undoubtedly?

    Like I said, I don't know.

    It would be a real blow to my sobriety streak, that's for sure.  Doubt much would change in the long run but since all of my internal organs would be fighting for survival for a few weeks the long run could take care of itself.

     

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  6. https://archive.is/zcYed
    Jack DeJohnette, Renowned Jazz Drummer Who Played on Miles Davis’ ‘Bitches Brew,’ Dead at 83
     

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    Grammy-winning musician played with trumpeter’s “electric period” band in addition to stints with Bill Evans, Joe Henderson, Charles Lloyd, and his own lengthy career as bandleader

     Jack DeJohnette, the renowned jazz drummer who played in Miles Davis’ electric period band, died on Sunday at the age of 83.
    Joan Clancy, DeJohnette’s assistant, confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause was congestive heart failure. “He was very comfortable and at peace,” Clancy tells Rolling Stone. “He was surrounded by his wife, Lydia, family, and friends. He was an NEA Jazz Master, and his legacy will go on for generations.” 
    The Chicago-born DeJohnette spent his childhood playing piano before moving to drums at the age of 18, ultimately creating a legacy of recordings that landed him at Number 40 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time list.
    “That relatively late start didn’t hold him back: an early stint with Chicago avant-garde institution the Association for Advancement of Creative Musicians led to live work with John Coltrane and a position in Charles Lloyd’s chart-topping quartet,” Rolling Stone wrote of DeJohnette. 

     After performing in groups led by saxophonists Jackie McLean, Stan Getz and Joe Henderson (including appearing on the latter’s 1969 LP Power to the People) and a stint in the Bill Evans Trio — as featured on the Grammy-winning 1969 album Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival — DeJohnette was enlisted to join Miles Davis’ group for a fruitful stretch in that jazz legend’s career.
    In 1969, DeJohnette replaced Tony Williams as drummer in Davis’ band just as the trumpeter was about to embark on his “electric period.” Joined by saxophonist Wayne Shorter, keyboardist Chick Corea and bassist Dave Holland, that formation with Davis was later dubbed the Lost Quintet as they never actually recorded in the studio together, but played a now-legendary run of European shows together, as captured on 2013’s Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2. 

    In the studio, DeJohnette and a larger ensemble accompanied Davis as he began to explore the jazz-rock genre, resulting in albums like his 1970 masterpiece Bitches Brew and — later, after DeJohnette had already exited the group — Circle in the Round and Big Fun. DeJohnette also played on a portion of “Yesternow” off Jack Johnson, as well as Davis’ jazz-funk LP On the Corner, which marked DeJohnette’s last recordings with Davis. 

    DeJohnette’s stint with Davis and his ever-changing lineups of the time also include live albums from 1970 concerts from both the Fillmore East and Fillmore West, a 1969 gig from the Newport Folk Festival documented on The Bootleg Series Vol. 4, and Davis’ jazz-fusion live/studio classic Live-Evil.

    “It was great to play with Miles, because Miles loved the drums,” DeJohnette explained to Jazz.com in 2009. “Everything came from the drums. He liked boxing, he was a big boxing fan, and he saw drums in jazz as having similar aspects.” 

    Following his tenure with Davis, DeJohnette spent the Seventies in groups led by Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Rollins, and Freddie Hubbard, as well as embarking on his own lengthy career as a bandleader that began with 1969’s The DeJohnette Complex. Other notable LPs include his Gateway albums alongside Dave Holland and guitarist John Abercrombie, 1992’s Music for the Fifth World, and 1992’s genre-shift Peace Time, which was awarded the Grammy for Best New Age Album.

    As Rolling Stone noted of DeJohnette in the Greatest Drummers list, “As a bandleader and composer, DeJohnette fuses all that he’d learned — A.A.C.M.-honed experimentation, Coltrane’s integrity, Davis’s pugilistic groove — with his own innate knack for turning a memorable tune.” 

     

     

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  7. hmmmm.
     

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    YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — The world’s oldest president, Cameroon ‘s 92-year-old Paul Biya, has won election again, the country’s top court said Monday, after days of protesters’ clashes with security forces left at least four people dead as opposition supporters demanded credible results.

    Biya has led the central African nation since 1982, ruling longer than most citizens have been alive. Over 70% of the population of almost 30 million is below 35. The Oct. 12 election has displayed growing tensions between Africa’s youth and its many aging leaders.

     

     

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  8. 54 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    I'm just relieved that apparently shitstain Trump is quiet enough today that some of you all can have your midlife crisis on this thread.

    I laughed.  Speaking of old, during certain points in a sports game when the game looked to be clearly won by one side, my Father would say "It's all over but the shouting."  To me that's now applicable to Trump and the US.

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  9. 22 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    The real reason for this diatribe was because of the reaction on the football board to Sark's supposed NFL aspirations.  It got real dark, real quick, and I don't think the internet society we have built is healthy.


    There's the "maga ruined sports" thread but I think its closer to us terminally online folks ruined it.  That Sark thread is disgusting.  Really bad. I quit paying close attention for quite a few years for various reasons but still check in occasionally due to neighbors talking.  Every once in  a while I take a look at the football board.   A whole lot of ugliness on that board in general.  Many seem they've never really been having fun.  And the amount of seriousness people take in analyzing every little thing is cringe.  The 'pussy' talk or what not.  Ugh.  Then there is the misery on just about every game thread.  Gross.  And the total 'clever' repeated surly-isms (ha ha, 'ass water'?).  Cringe.

    That train of thought put out there, I see it on other sports discussion sites too.  Not unique to Surly.  We all distract ourselves in some fashion. I think there may be healthier distractions than online sports boards and most pro sports fandom in general.

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  10. On 10/14/2025 at 1:52 PM, naija said:

     

    D'Angelo was one of one. this aging business sucks.

    RIP.  I somehow missed this news when it happened.  And yes to the above. 

  11. 3 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

     I do think he's the least bad option in that particular race.

    Funny how it always comes down to that.  I'm not invested in it but he seems an unrepentant killer. I don't buy that he didn't know the tattoo's meaning but seems more edgelord "I'm a killer" type stuff than true nazi.  That stated all this sent me down a rabbit hole of horrors we committed in Iraq which was a good refresher in a depressing way.  He seems completely untrustworthy to me.  Perhaps time proves me wrong. But again I think our overall collapse is in full effect and this race won't really be something we talk about in the long run. 

  12. 2 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    Most leftists had never liked Platner because he was a combat vet who signed on to Blackwater. Valid criticism, but not electorally smart.

    He was also a guard at Abu Ghraib apparently.  I honestly don't have to care about him electorally. I'm not a fan of war criminals, red or blue.

  13. Don't know if this is a purity test or not but not sure I'm a fan of this dude:

    https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1mzuxqm/im_the_maine_oysterman_combat_veteran_running_for/namhen4/
     

    "Small wars are pretty enjoyable"
    https://old.reddit.com/r/Hasan_Piker/comments/1oe0fht/the_average_american_veteran_is_dumb_argument/
     

    Additionally, like the post says if he had fantasies and knowledge about early 20th century colonial wars him not knowing that SS symbol stretches credulity.  Drunk Marines get Devil Dog tattoos or some kind of non-nazi shit unless they are nazis.  And anything "Fallujah" gets a side eye from me, sorry.  Then there is the blackwater thing.  So dude enjoyed slaughtering brown people into his mid-30's but now he's all cool because "oligarchs?"  OK.  What actual atonement has he worked for or done for the people of Iraq? He was the son of a lawyer and restaurant owner and went to private college prep school but we're to forgive him for just being a meathead.  There might be redemption arcs out there, but that's a lot to redeem here imo. 

    All that said, we're in the total decay stage so I'm not invested all that much either way.  Nor do I live in Maine.  But he sure doesn't seem like someone the left should look to imo.

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