Everything posted by bolverk
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Epstein and Maxwell
We also have a thread in the CR that was started in 2019, which has grown to 89 pages, where folks on the very first page talk about not giving a shit whose "team" gets caught up in the Epstein scandal so long as guilty parties are punished. Your personal lack of give-a-shit there, too, is also noted. Your aggressively defensive indignation, including personal insults such as the one quoted above, didn't get going until one of those "teams" actually began actively blocking the public release of information. And then, you suddenly decide to come out and start attacking the "team" that wants the files to see daylight. I hope you can see how your claim to be on the "team" of justice and transparency rings oh-so-fucking-hollow.
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explosion at L.A. Sheriff's facility. At least 3 cops dead
I can't speak to LASD protocols, but at least in Austin, that's what they did this past spring.
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Epstein and Maxwell
For the record, we have a 24-page thread about shaming pedophiles, yet I don't recall you ever posting in that one. Hell, this thread is 3 years old, and your first post here wasn't until Sunday. So, based on your lack of posting history about the topic, it seems that you didn't start giving a shit until very recently, for whatever reason.
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Pics of parking douche baggery
Are you claiming that your bad parking and these guys stopped the Roman Empire? That's bad ass.
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Trump’s America
That one was on my mind. It's a charming little station, and *I think* the only one you can get when you're in town.
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explosion at L.A. Sheriff's facility. At least 3 cops dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LASD_deputy_gangs
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Astronomer CEO and HR chief busted in 4K
It's a Sisyphean struggle, BV. Much like mine, with trying to get people to copy/paste plain text around these parts.
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Israel
If anybody still gives a shit about the Palestinians, or the future of Israel for that matter, take 15 minutes to read this. I'm putting up a gift link, so it can be read in full and you can follow any of the links in this essay. Personally, I've been hesitant to use the word 'genocide' in preference of 'ethnic cleansing' to describe what's going on in Gaza. Still, this guy who studies this shit makes a compelling case and lays out a good global argument for why we shouldn't shy away from using the proper nomenclature. @statsman, who would be wise to read it, thinks he's supporting Israel in denying what's happening. On the contrary, his pigheadedness, as well as that of many others, only imperils the nation in the long term. By Omer Bartov Dr. Bartov is a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. A month after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, I believed there was evidence that the Israeli military had committed war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity in its counterattack on Gaza. But contrary to the cries of Israel’s fiercest critics, the evidence did not seem to me to rise to the crime of genocide. By May 2024, the Israel Defense Forces had ordered about one million Palestinians sheltering in Rafah — the southernmost and last remaining relatively undamaged city of the Gaza Strip — to move to the beach area of the Mawasi, where there was little to no shelter. The army then proceeded to destroy much of Rafah, a feat mostly accomplished by August. At that point it appeared no longer possible to deny that the pattern of I.D.F. operations was consistent with the statements denoting genocidal intent made by Israeli leaders in the days after the Hamas attack. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had promised that the enemy would pay a “huge price” for the attack and that the I.D.F. would turn parts of Gaza, where Hamas was operating, “into rubble,” and he called on “the residents of Gaza” to “leave now because we will operate forcefully everywhere.” Mr. Netanyahu had urged his citizens to remember “what Amalek did to you,” a quote many interpreted as a reference to the demand in a biblical passage calling for the Israelites to “kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings” of their ancient enemy. Government and military officials said they were fighting “human animals” and, later, called for “total annihilation.” Nissim Vaturi, the deputy speaker of Parliament, said on X that Israel’s task must be “erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.” Israel’s actions could be understood only as the implementation of the expressed intent to make the Gaza Strip uninhabitable for its Palestinian population. I believe the goal was — and remains today — to force the population to leave the Strip altogether or, considering that it has nowhere to go, to debilitate the enclave through bombings and severe deprivation of food, clean water, sanitation and medical aid to such an extent that it is impossible for Palestinians in Gaza to maintain or reconstitute their existence as a group. My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one. This is not just my conclusion. A growing number of experts in genocide studies and international law have concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza can only be defined as genocide. So has Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, and Amnesty International. South Africa has brought a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. The continued denial of this designation by states, international organizations and legal and scholarly experts will cause unmitigated damage not just to the people of Gaza and Israel but also to the system of international law established in the wake of the horrors of the Holocaust, designed to prevent such atrocities from happening ever again. It is a threat to the very foundations of the moral order on which we all depend. Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opinion/israel-gaza-holocaust-genocide-palestinians.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XU8.udoX.V-TuaxjE1gWW&smid=url-share
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Astronomer CEO and HR chief busted in 4K
Great example. It's this kind of shit that makes me think to myself, "Fuck'em." If either one of them is having an affair with someone outside of the workplace and it doesn't affect their judgment at work, I don't give a shit. But again, this is the CEO and the head of HR. As an employee or some B2B vendor/customer of that company, I'm exploring options for exiting that relationship if either of them sticks around.
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Astronomer CEO and HR chief busted in 4K
This is where I'm at on the scandale du jour. It's not just the guy having an affair, or even having an affair with some employee. She's the head of HR, and I'm always wary of those fuckers. Sure, HR is always in bed with leadership, but she's literally in bed with leadership. Fuck going to work for that company with that CEO and that HR lady.
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
It's bizarre that certain people view physics and chemistry as "political." Sure, you might not agree with how public policy responds to basic scientific facts, and that's when things can get political, but you can't credibly deny that the climate is changing at this point.
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
I live on the edge of the desert along a ridgeline about 35-40 feet above the nearest creek. This house ain't never gonna flood. Tornadoes/hail/wildfires are my personal concern.
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
Question: Is FEMA going away with all these cuts? If so, who's going to be updating and redrawing maps?
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Trump’s America
You're probably right, but federal funding varies quite a bit from station to station. The table below is from the same article I posted above. In Texas, NPR gets about 8% of its funding from the feds, and PBS gets about 20%. Many of the more rural/isolated states seem highly dependent on that funding. Of course, those areas also tend to be more Republican, so they may not miss having public TV/radio. At the same time, they likely don't have great access to commercial offerings either, which was kind of the point of having funding for public access. Still, you're correct about internet access -- though many rural/isolated areas have challenges there, too.
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
Maybe. It was written more than 20 years ago, and we've already noted how much his speaking abilities have declined over the last 10 years. So maybe 20 years ago, he was a better wordsmith (certainly never eloquent), but I wouldn't know. He wasn't on my political/cultural radar until after he started with his racist birther conspiracy bullshit.
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Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
I had the correct word ringing in my ear at the end, but I wasn't sure if it was actually a real word. One huge mistake I made was guessing words in the plural, which I don't think Wordle allows for.
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Trump’s America
I'm afraid I might lose over-the-air access to NPR. I already can't get PBS. The signal's too weak here, and I don't do cable. I'm not in one of the affected orange ZIP codes, but Texas Public Radio, based in San Antonio, has a transmitter that serves my community. This morning, they're already asking for increased donations for a "resiliency fund" in response to the cuts, and I doubt many out here contribute or even know TPR exists. So, if they end up having to cut service, I'm sure we'll probably be on the chopping block (I do still listen to KUT quite a bit with the phone app). Regardless of my local access, cutting funding sounds like it could cause a cascading effect throughout the NPR network. Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR President Trump’s proposal to eliminate federal funding for public broadcasters threatens scores of radio and TV stations across the United States that air PBS and NPR programs. Early Friday, the House gave final approval to a measure that would eliminate $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the company that funds NPR, PBS and stations in major cities and far-flung towns like Unalakleet, Alaska, and Pendleton, Ore. The measure will now be sent to President Trump, who has pushed for the cuts, for his signature. The cuts are a time bomb for the public media system. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has disbursed funding for stations through September. After that, more than 100 combined TV and radio stations that serve millions of Americans in rural pockets of the country will be at risk of going dark, according to an analysis from Public Media Company, an advisory firm. But the troubles could run deeper than that, said Tim Isgitt, the organization’s chief executive. The sudden and dramatic reduction in funding will result in a pool of fewer stations to buy programming and solicit donations, potentially creating a “doom loop” with dire consequences for the rest of the system. “Failing stations will create a cascade effect in this highly connected and interdependent system, impacting content producers and leading to the potential collapse of additional distressed stations in other areas of the country,” Mr. Isgitt said. An analysis by Public Media Company identified 78 public radio organizations and 37 TV organizations that were at risk of going dark as a result of the cuts. In some cases those organizations operate multiple stations, allowing them to reach even greater populations. The stations rely on grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal funding for at least 30 percent of their budgets, and some of them serve counties with limited access to local news. Republicans have been trying to defund public media for decades, arguing that news coverage on NPR has a liberal bias and that taxpayers should not be required to support coverage they disagree with. Those attempts have repeatedly failed, with lawmakers unwilling to choke off funding to local stations that serve their constituents. This week was different. In a Senate vote that mostly broke down along party lines, Republicans clawed back funding from public media organizations in their own states, with some exceptions. In some states with stations at risk of going dark, such as Mississippi, both senators voted to defund public media. But there was some Republican support in some of the most-affected states, such as Alaska, where Sen. Lisa Murkowski cast a “no” vote, and Maine, where Sen. Susan Collins also opposed the measure. In those states, the combined federal funding for the stations as a proportion of their total budgets is relatively high.
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Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
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Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
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Uniform Pron
The early 90s throwbacks with the non-beveled Double T will always be my personal favorite for home games, followed by the black/red/black. On the road, I like the black/white/black combo the most.
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Epstein and Maxwell
I think a few posters should consider making an appointment with their doctors to get checked for whiplash from this sudden about-face.
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Epstein and Maxwell
Hear, hear. WIRED has been doing some really excellent investigative journalism the last few months.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
- Non-political tariffs thread
The Florida Tomato Exchange (decent band name) is confident they can make up the difference. With what labor force? The fine folks imprisoned in Alligator Alcatraz? Their attempt at changing child labor laws in Florida failed this year. I guess there's always the next session when growers are all pissed about tomatoes rotting in the fields. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/business/economy/trump-tariff-mexican-tomatoes.html The 17 percent duty is calculated to measure the percentage by which Mexican tomatoes have been sold in the United States at unfair prices, the Commerce Department said. The United States imported $2.8 billion of tomatoes from Mexico in 2023, according to data from the World Bank, representing more than 85 percent of American imports. The Fresh Produce Association of the Americas, which represents companies that import and sell produce and flowers, said it was “disappointed” in the decision. It said that its members distributed vine-ripened, greenhouse-grown tomatoes from Mexico that are not replaceable by tomatoes grown in Florida and the Southeast, most of which are grown in an open field, picked green and gassed to induce a color change. “As an industry, we are saddened that American consumers will have to pay a tomato tax, or duty, for a reduced selection of the tomatoes they prefer,” the group said. Robert Guenther, the executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Exchange, said that the previous five agreements with Mexico had failed, and that strong enforcement of U.S. trade laws was needed to protect “the stability of our food supply chain.” “This decision will protect hardworking American tomato growers from unfair Mexican trading practices and send a strong signal that the Trump administration is committed to ensuring fair markets for American agriculture,” he said.- Epstein and Maxwell
It is absolutely news that the House Rules Committee voted against releasing the files. There's no opinion or editorializing in my post. I'm just puzzled why you guys lost interest. I'm sorry that this news is so upsetting. - Non-political tariffs thread
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