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  1. Pedestrians too. Your post is spot on with the dangers on the road for all types of cycles, but in addition, the EVs are quiet and with inattentive drivers at the helm, it makes a bad situation worse. I don't think I can wear any more lights and reflective gear than I do (and this is day or night) and yet the number of close calls when having the right of way and in a zebra crossing has gotten to the point where I'm considering a head cam. The common refrain for drivers is "I didn't see them, officer" when in reality it is "I wasn't looking, officer." Drivers are taught not to admit fault, but the dead tell no tales...
  2. Accurate. As the river of words flows rapidly across the smooth brain, occasionally one or two words of flotsam get caught in the lone wrinkle and stick there. BIDEN'S FAULT is just one of those phrases. Perhaps later, that one may get dislodged and replaced with something slightly longer such as LOCK HER UP.
  3. You can also picture Kim Jong-un or one of the DPRK spokespersons with every tweet or quote and it's rather unsettling with how well it fits. 100 days in.
  4. The above 3 quotes are in reference to the fed agents' raid in OKC and I agree with the sentiment that we can expect more of this. Whether or not we will see or hear of this in the future is going to get interesting. The feds are taking the phones with them, and as we know, the cell phone and it's ability to video has been an occasional governor to the actions of the police state. As this regime wants to empower the ability of local, county, and state officials, who rarely violate civil rights ( 🙄 ), being unleashed to grab people and possessions, it will finally garner those local officers the "respect" they believe they deserve. (If you've ever watched the YT channels of the civil rights attorneys who discuss violations and retaliations by officers, one can quickly see that 'feeling disrespected' drives a lot of bad officer behavior.) However, now the thing (cameras) that is holding the behavior somewhat in check is in the hands of the one who wielded the stick. The media is not completely neutered (yet) but w/o video it is a helluva lot easier to dispute claims. It won't matter if it is mistaken identity or you don't look like me, or you're not from around here are you, or anything other reason capricious or truly illegal -- the government has provided them the protection and they serve them, not you. That's the protect and serve part and what it really means in a regime that is not a democracy. Heaven help the family that has weapons. Odds are they will all be killed, adults and children alike, and no govt official will ever be punished. (thanks SCOTUS). Think about it for a minute. This woman probably had identification and other ways those 20 (TWENTY!!!!) officers could check authenticity either before or after the warrant was served and they didn't bother because she and hers don't matter. Do any lives matter? Don't answer that.
  5. Tuesday update on measles: 663 cases, an increase of 17 since Friday. Lamar County numbers have been creeping upward.
  6. Mexico has issued a U.S. travel warning due to the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas and elsewhere. With testing, the health authorities in Mexico linked cases in a border state in Mexico (560) to the west Texas outbreak. Last year, the entire country had 7 cases.
  7. Maybe boosting/aiding his investment in Slate or Blue Origin? Might be a two birds, one stone gambit. Reduce Elmo's troubling Tesla fiasco attention and give them something to divert eyes away from the tariff fiasco. In the meantime.... As I go on rambling walks, I pass by homes and apartments that range from very low SES to many million dollar lots. I've got my eye on a hoarder house where the resident has been stockpiling rolls of toilet paper that have now taken up the entire back of an old Chevy (old enough to have a metal topper so the interior is visible). My only archaeological experience is from a freshman level elective, but if one looks at the layers I believe it is COVID era. Since the paper is still in plastic, I'm somewhat confident that any hoarding pathogens haven't contaminated it.
  8. We may no longer have a Free and Fair Press, Mr President but we sure as hell have the most rigorous and free comma usage I have ever seen.
  9. Project Loony, if the simulation has any sense of humor at all. *Here is a wiki article about the original Project Loon for those unaware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC Brief excerpt:
  10. Poor guy. No Oakleys, no truck for his selfie and he can't even afford a full size chimney. Sucks to his assmar.
  11. The section on AI when combined with data plus integrated location tracking, etc. It's beyond invasive. So many services require users to use devices with apps installed which furthers the ability of the government and oligarchical corps to monitor and control the populace. Women of child bearing age were already concerned about menstrual cycle trackers and were deleting them but that likely will not matter. Panic voting, panic buying, The remark about soft authoritarianism that you don't see coming is spot on.
  12. Jean Reno is such a solid actor; that's one of his good ones. Still crack up at his role in the much lighter-hearted French Kiss with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan.
  13. SIAP. I considered putting this in the Elon thread, but he is only one of many who favor this manipulation: Read the entire thread for more. This type of neurotargeting is very effective, although people dismiss it as something to which they are not susceptible. But that isn't true. It has worked on voters in past elections, it worked on citizens during the pandemic, and with the information silos where many reside it will keep growing. Here's the rest of it, spoilered for length:
  14. Protect Our X Save Our X
  15. Tyler Winklevoss; now there's a name I haven't heard in a while.
  16. Phelan is a pay-to-play nominee. Because we all know meritocracy is wholly about rich white guys, mediocre white guys, and depraved white guys and everyone else knowing their place.
  17. Watched UnBroken this weekend. Not the former Olympian Louis Zamperini, Unbroken, film but a documentary about the 7 Weber siblings who managed to survive WWII Germany after being helped and hidden by citizens. Short (around an hour and a half) it is directed by the daughter of the youngest sibling, who goes in search of how they lived and managed to immigrate to America.
  18. For the regime, citizenship is merely a formality with which they treat with as much respect as a roll of paper towels. The Germans, in one fell swoop, struck down citizenship for anyone identified as a Jew; this is from a similar playbook. It is institutional power saying you are not one of us and are not afforded anything except what we say--wielding the law as it suits them. Since judges are being intimidated (and the RW media supporting that to propagandize and normalize that type of intimidation) it should be alarming in more ways than just this one. Perhaps you are seeing this as well--instead of taking a hard stop this line shall not be crossed ; those that dissect it with the surgeon like precision they apply to gun control, state's rights vs slavery, etc in order to either shore up their support for the regime and cast away any troublesome doubts/fears or those that are true supporters who will wholly believe this is how America should be. Does it appear hypocritical? Absolutely but that's no surprise.
  19. Children were routinely institutionalized and/or not mainstreamed in schools depending upon the issue during his childhood, and he spent many of his later years under a fog of various substances so someone from a privileged background such as his is not the best informed person on the nature of these diagnoses and how best to treat them.
  20. Friday update is 646 cases. Lamar County in the northeast had 3 new cases.
  21. I would say it's an ethos, but really it seems like those feminists that used to say that some men couldn't deal with the fact that women could birth a human. This bothered this type of man so much that they somehow thought that producing a mammoth pile of shit should also be commemorated that it became a 'birthing' warrior story. I can't believe I wrote that but think about it...not for too long though cause it's rather sad.
  22. Aiyah, you can tell it's getting warmer because gin & tonic was the choice tonight. It's not something we have so much during cooler weather and since we had a couple of limes left in the bag, here we are. Our little lime tree is now five years old and put on quite a few flowers last month and the wee limes have begun to form for what we hope will be a fruitful summer. The difference between the bag of limes from the store and one picked from the tree is noticeable. Hayman's Extra Dry for the gin. Cheers!
  23. Melamine. It was to boost the protein in the watered down product. Here's some articles on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2008/10/09/the-story-behind-chinas-tainted-milk-scandal
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