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  1. On 7/10/2023 at 7:46 AM, 'stache said:

    I'll never understand our species' need to preserve human remains after death. Why preserve a body, put it in an expensive box, just to bury it and have them take up real estate, with a stone. None of us are that effing important.

    I think I overall agree with you, and I don't care much what happens after I'm gone because I obviously won't know it.  But I went through a cemetery the other day that had a lot of history to it, including a gold miner tragedy from a bygone era.  Saw a family plot area where the last person was buried in 2007 but the oldest grave was from the 1800's.  I don't know, kind of neat to have a line of history available for the living to view and think on.  

    So maybe no burial but a plaque somewhere with dates.  Just for whatever reason.  I've always told the wife I'd like one of those memorial benches somewhere along a river or maybe beach park area. 

  2. 19 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    We've put north central California on the list.  Maybe somewhere within 30 minutes of Sacramento.  I've been there, it's not exactly a hotbed of culture and activity, but it's two hours either direction to SF/Napa and Lake Tahoe, which seems pretty compelling.  Weather is good, reasonably hot in the summer, not too cold in the winter.  Should be all kinds of good produce in the area.  Moderately low earthquake risk.

    Any thoughts on how stupid this is?

    Grass Valley/Nevada City a pretty area last time I was there.  Yuba river quite the neat area to explore.   This probably  doesn't help you much in your decision.  All CR talk aside, California is expensive.  It just is.   But sure, the Sierra Nevada foothills have four seasons.  Parts of it got bombed pretty bad with snow this last winter though from my understanding.  Like not getting out of your neighborhood snow.

     

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    “Jewish men have small cocks because they can’t use them after they get married,” Giuliani said, according to the transcript. 

     

    Explains them building those space lasers.

     

  4. 1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    What is that gif from?  I've tried so many times to figure it out.

    I see it has been answered, but it really is worth a few minutes of your time.

    edit: seems youtube has purged a lot of the 'full scene' stuff, sorry.

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  5. This won't be a popular opinion,  But the DT  "50 Cal to Ukraine" thread bothers the fuck out of me.  The open bloodlust and eagerness to chip in to see death (and often from so-called liberals) when there are righteous causes right in Texan's back yard bothers me.  Don't see a "let's go stop the drowning of migrants" thread somehow picking up so many willing 100 dollar donations.  Or just about any humanitarian aid anywhere, including Ukraine. Send me videos of dead russian pawns instead.

    Additionally, and I've mentioned this before, I didn't see this kind of outcry over many other atrocious wars and acts, a decent amount of which the US did more than just let happen.  Daily news on the horrors of the Russian v Ukrainian wars versus just about any other conclict, including the awful shit we did in the ME.


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    For example, President Joe Biden has correctly asserted that “nations have a right to sovereignty and territorial integrity.” The United States, however, has been the only government in the world to formally recognize Israel’s illegal annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights and Morocco’s annexation of the entire nation of Western Sahara, both seized by force in defiance of the United Nations.

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    In addition, Biden’s claim that the United States “always stands up to bullies” would be news to the Yemenis, Lebanese, Palestinians, and others who have been subjected to massive military attacks by U.S.-armed allies. His insistence that “we stand for freedom” is contradicted by his administration’s support for brutal dictatorships in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and elsewhere. Criticism of Russia’s veto of the U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the invasion rings hollow in light of successive U.S. vetoes of resolutions challenging the U.S. invasions of Grenada and Panama, U.S. attacks on Nicaragua, and Israel’s invasions of Lebanon.

    And, of course, Biden’s insistence that countries must not invade other nations on false pretenses is incredibly hypocritical considering his strident support as a Senator for the U.S. invasion of Iraq on the deceptive grounds that Saddam Hussein had somehow amassed vast arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, a nuclear program, and sophisticated delivery systems.

     

     

    I'm sure this lumps me into some lazy 'both sides' replies, and a few negs.   Which often makes me wonder if I fit in here at all.  Oh well, I'll go back to laughing along with whatever happens to the orange faced gibbon.  But I find the participation in that thread by some pretty damn awful.

     

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  6. 2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    We used to, back when our leaders had spines.  

    There's a national monument at Manzanar, for instance.  The idea was that a great country can acknowledge its flaws and learn from them.  That time has apparently passed.

    I recently read a book of essays by the late Barry Lopez.  In one of the essays he pointed out that while there is a Holocaust museum in DC, there is no national museum dealing with Native American genocide.  I don't think I knew 1/32nd of the amount of horrors we inflicted.  Outside of some random college courses, it really isn't taught or acknowledged. 

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  7. On 7/25/2023 at 6:30 AM, jimmyjazz said:

    Brief tangent:  look at this FOX News chyron.  "Kamala".  Never before do I recall any media outlets referring to VPOTUS by their first name.  I'm not sure if it's because she's not white or if it's because she's not male -- probably both.  It's intentionally diminishing.

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    This was one of those "duh, of course" things I can't help but think about now every time I read it.  In front of my face all along, but with all the other bullshit I guess I didn't notice.  

    Desantis story brought to my attention again.

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    "That makes it very clear about the injustices of slavery in vivid detail so anyone [who] actually read that and listens to Kamala, knows that she is lying," DeSantis said in reference to Vice President Kamala Harris' criticism of the curriculum changes.

    They have not been hiding who they are for some time now.  We should not accept this behavior.  Thank you for pointing it out.

  8. "songs played on the radio" is another indicator of old* by the way.  This complaint has been levied by seemingly every generation ever.   Which I think makes it an old compaint.

     

    *I'm old but I could not tell you what is being played on mainstream radio in any genre.  

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  9. coltrane-dolphy-news.jpg?anchor=center&m

     

    https://www.allaboutjazz.com/evenings-at-the-village-gate-john-coltrane-impulse-records

    https://www.jazzwise.com/review/john-coltrane-eric-dolphy-evenings-at-the-village-gate-john-coltrane-with-eric-dolphy

     

    I'm a sucker for just about anything these dudes did.  As noted, it is a singular mic recording so for me the bass (and there are two bass players) disappears most of the time quite often.  But Coltrane/Dolphy/Jones are on fire.  The playing outdoes the sound quality imo.  Is on all the streaming services.

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  10. Been reading some obits and tributes this morning.  Seems he was the exception to 'only the good die young.'  I had no idea he was a serious painter by the way.  What an impressive life he seemed to live.  RIP.

     

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  11. On 7/21/2023 at 8:13 PM, Bama Chick said:

    It hurts my heart to know that Texas rejected this man over Abbott the Asshole.

    And I have no skin in this game, except as an American citizen who wants better for my Texas friends.
     

    fatty laughing at drowning migrants and their children confirms my reasons for putting on ignore.  pretty vile.

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  12. While I'm at it (and this is more lower class than middle, but still):

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    Researchers at the University of California-Riverside recently released a study showing poverty is the fourth leading cause of death nationwide. Poverty kills more people than homicide, respiratory disease, gun violence and opioid overdoses, the study showed.

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    The minimum wage has been stuck at an unlivable $7.25 an hour under three presidents. Adjusting for inflation, today’s minimum wage is now worth less than at any point since 1956. Nearly a third of the workforce, or 52 million people, earn less than $15 an hour, including 47% of Black workers, 46% of Hispanic workers, 20% of Asian American and Indigenous workers, 40% of working women and 50% of working women of color. Raising the minimum wage to even $15 an hour would lift 7.6 million people – many of whom are women, immigrants, Black, Latinx or parents – out of poverty and give more than 50 million people a raise.

    According to the Economic Policy Institute, a worker paid the $7.25 federal minimum wage earns 27.4% less in inflation-adjusted terms than what their counterpart was paid in July 2009 when the minimum wage was last increased, and 40.2% less than a minimum wage worker in February 1968, the historical high point of the minimum wage’s value.

     

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/24/us-federal-minimum-wage-rev-william-barber

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  13. 55 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    This is the wrong thread for you to post these very wrong ideas.

    Everthing WhatTheBuck wrote was correct and that was just the tip of the iceberg.  How many members of PNAC would have been in the Gore administration?  There is no right thread for you to continue this nonsense.

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