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  1. Poor guy. No Oakleys, no truck for his selfie and he can't even afford a full size chimney. Sucks to his assmar.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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:
  5. Protect Our X Save Our X
  6. Tyler Winklevoss; now there's a name I haven't heard in a while.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Friday update is 646 cases. Lamar County in the northeast had 3 new cases.
  12. 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.
  13. 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!
  14. 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
  15. This is on point. In the pursuit of my education, one of the required courses was a 3 credit hour semester long course wherein the curriculum was devoted to reading research papers across different fields (but mostly in the field of study) and assessing them in different ways (from very basic like origins of citations, i.e. was this a bad study based on a bad origin all the way to methodology, the math, and so on). It helped to form at the very least, a basic rubric for the upperclassperson on ways to overcome bias and mental laziness when faced with a tranche of information that might be misleading or even a massive info dump that makes the eyes swim.
  16. Looks like Blue Bell Creameries can go back to listeria production in their facilities if inspections in the food service industry are becoming nonexistent. For the free market aficionados who think self-regulation will work because killing customers is bad for business, I'm sure the companies can run the numbers on how many ill or dead before it becomes unprofitable. Milk with a side of bacteria, chalk, melamine, and tuberculosis is what America voted for and now we have it.
  17. RFK Jr.: "AmEricAns NeEd To EaT LeSs PrOcesseD FoOds!" Also RFK Jr after E.coli outbreak: "ShIT HaPpens."
  18. Measles update for today: 624 cases, an increase of 27 since the last update. The rash sometimes doesn't appear up to 14 days after exposure. If someone doesn't know they've been exposed, etc, then it may not be that unusual for them to think they just have a cold or other similar illness as early symptoms are fever, runny nose, and cough.
  19. THIS. I grew up in a family where the head of the house cooked the steaks well done. I was not a rebellious teen by any stretch of the imagination but damn if I didn't stage a meat coup over insisting that steak should never be cooked that long.
  20. Sooo, made a red clam sauce with linguine and a small toasted ciabatta with garlic butter to mop up the sauce. Had some makgeolli while cooking since the bottle was already opened, then spouse pours a red wine for the meal and after a couple of glasses and supper over and that pretty much is our cross cultural potent potable for the evening. Cheers!
  21. Finally got around to watching My Name Is Loh Kiwan, the Korean film starring Song Joong-ki (Vincenzo, Bogata: City Of The Lost, Space Sweepers) with supporting roles by Choi Sung-Eun (Start-up), Lee Sang-hee (Diary Of A Prosecutor, Love Scout), and Jo Han-chul (Vincenzo, Reborn Rich) among others. Song plays a North Korean defector who lands in Brussels and through a chance encounter, begins to build a new life. It's violent and sometimes the plot seems a little far-fetched with respect to that chance encounter, but not bad. I need to have a word with Netflix, however. Although I do enjoy watching a lot of international films and series, with Korean, Indian, and Chinese origins being my favorites, the algorithm has decided that is ALL I watch and it's getting annoying. I watch many of the other shows that are listed here but don't always comment on them but the recs on the streaming platform seem to ignore the action/adventure movies, foodie shows, and documentaries I also watch.
  22. Props that 6 year old Fastbreak didn't ask: "Gramps, what is a prostitute?"
  23. Add my voice to those who have made suggestions to consider checking out a different service and or church. Completely anecdotal but I shared some similar feelings as yours at times--I understood why some congregants preferred the pageantry of a *full-on praise and shout service but the day in day out once a week quiet contemplation was what resonated within my own family. Our children were early risers and in the community in which we lived at the time the church we attended held an **8:00 AM service in the chapel. Compared to the sanctuary with its large organ, two aisles, balcony, etc, the chapel was much more intimate. No stained glass windows, no choir. Just around a dozen or so pews, a piano, and the minister. It helped that the minister was quite focused on serving others and the sermon and scriptures and anecdotes shared were often intended to encourage that type of devotion. Aside from religion, developed over centuries, we forget that the human species would have never survived had we not cared for and served others, most especially 'the least of these'. I miss that church; when we moved away, it was difficult to find another in which we felt that spirituality. Keep searching and questioning. *If you ever watched the scene in the Spielberg directed The Color Purple where Shug Avery leads the juke joint denizens to her preacher daddy's church, you know just how amazing a service can be when it happens with the congregants in tune with the Lord's will and not their own. That was not a performance, that was a soul reaching out for love and forgiveness on Earth and in Heaven. In contrast, some of the services I've attended do have that feeling of 'performance' over substance. **I have so many stories of attending this service as often the only family with small children among a chapel congregation whose average age was probably 75. But this is not the time nor place.
  24. I get what you're saying with respect to declarations, and your experiences (which mirror my own) etc. My commentary is more along the lines of what the future may bring if the agencies decide to surveil in a more sinister way. Fine line between national security and 'we just don't like your kind.'
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