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stormwyrm

#3075
February 17, 2021, 07:34:21 PM
Quote from: Callie Del Noire on February 17, 2021, 11:52:26 AM
Rush Limbaugh, in my opinion was a demonstration of why the fairness doctrine shouldn’t have been undone, passed of
Lung cancer. Not a way I’d wish anyone to die

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/media/rush-limbaugh-obituary/index.html

As has been said before about Mayor Daley... I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.
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Kitteredge

#3076
February 17, 2021, 07:44:31 PM
I have no problem being glad Limbaugh is dead. He should have never been born. A fetid piece of shit, a demon of a person, filled with hatred and scorn, he is as responsible as anybody for the horrors of this country right now, from Trump to QAnon. He was absolutely vile.

Oniya

#3077
February 17, 2021, 08:00:59 PM
Riffing off of the standard funeral sentiments:  May his memory be a warning.
"Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women.~*~*~Don't think it's all been done before
And in that endeavor, laziness will not do." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think we're never gonna win this war
Robin Williams-Dead Poets Society ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think your world's gonna fall apart
I do have a cause, though.  It's obscenity.  I'm for it.  - Tom Lehrer~*~All you need is your beautiful heart
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Mr Quixotic

#3079
February 17, 2021, 08:08:02 PM
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'I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.'

Haibane

#3080
February 17, 2021, 08:54:33 PM
Quote from: Oniya on February 17, 2021, 02:49:26 PM
Facebook has banned Australia.

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/changes-to-sharing-and-viewing-news-on-facebook-in-australia/
Its not like FB cannot afford to come to arrangement. Seems like spite and childishness to me.

Missy

#3081
February 17, 2021, 10:29:50 PM
Quote from: Haibane on February 17, 2021, 08:54:33 PM
Its not like FB cannot afford to come to arrangement. Seems like spite and childishness to me.

But you can't challnege the most holy aspect of our capitalist faith, that most sacred, the pocketbook, it's sacrilege!

Haibane

#3082
February 18, 2021, 12:26:21 PM
If your opinion of Ted Cruz wasn't low already, this will drive it down more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56117800

Oniya

#3083
February 18, 2021, 01:59:59 PM
Quote from: Haibane on February 18, 2021, 12:26:21 PM
If your opinion of Ted Cruz wasn't low already, this will drive it down more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56117800

Changing his campaign slogan to 'Yes, We Cancun!'

(Saw the preludes to that last night, before there was reliable confirmation.)
"Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women.~*~*~Don't think it's all been done before
And in that endeavor, laziness will not do." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think we're never gonna win this war
Robin Williams-Dead Poets Society ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think your world's gonna fall apart
I do have a cause, though.  It's obscenity.  I'm for it.  - Tom Lehrer~*~All you need is your beautiful heart
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Haibane

#3084
February 18, 2021, 02:38:08 PM
NASA Perseverance Mars rover set to touch down at 20:55 GMT (15:55 ET).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/science-environment-56101496

The Lovely Tsaritsa

#3086
February 18, 2021, 02:57:49 PM
Quote from: Haibane on February 18, 2021, 02:40:56 PM
Live coverage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0b_ijaYMQ

It lands safe. :-) Husband and I, stay the up, to watch.

Haibane

#3087
February 18, 2021, 02:58:18 PM
Lander is successfully down. Awesome.  8-)

Beorning

#3088
February 18, 2021, 04:20:52 PM
What ancient evils will this misguided machine awaken??? I shudder to think!!!

Haibane

#3089
February 18, 2021, 05:54:28 PM
[with apologies to Herbert George Wells for adjusting the century forwards...]

"No one would have believed in the last years of the twentieth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twenty-first century came the great disillusionment."

RedRose

#3091
February 19, 2021, 07:39:50 AM
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/white-privilege-a-fact-in-france-macron/2085390
Thats interesting. My country is notoriously anti mentioning race, anti DNA test (you can get fined), etc. I'm generally mistaken for a good Catholic girl so I hear a lot of racism or homophobic talk (I'm an invisible minority) and I can testify that people will just bash Asians, foreigners or whoever. Also "they're looking for it." I've had fights with uber taxis over the hate flood. I feel that things like metoo might have educated some but they've also created a reaction against the people who will be like "oh, stop listening to metoo"
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Oniya

#3092
February 19, 2021, 07:46:04 PM
There's been some hub-bub about Boebert and Greene recently about guns.

Greene has co-sponsored a bill in support of making 'suppressors' (silencers) for guns more readily available.  (Called, disingenuously, the 'Hearing Protection Act'.)

The sponsor of the bill claims to have suffered damage from firearms noise that could have been averted if 'noise suppressors' were more readily available.  Apparently, they've never heard of headphones.

Boebert, on the other hand, has recently shown up on Zoom with 4 guns (a pistol and 3 rifles) 'artistically' displayed in the background.  When called out on unsafe storage (she has four children, according to the article, and being only 34, I'm betting at least one is under 10), she asserted that those were 'ready for use'.

(On a funny note, someone subtweeted about this incident with a display case of BadDragon products behind him.  I'm not sure how I should feel about recognizing them.)   ;D
"Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women.~*~*~Don't think it's all been done before
And in that endeavor, laziness will not do." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think we're never gonna win this war
Robin Williams-Dead Poets Society ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think your world's gonna fall apart
I do have a cause, though.  It's obscenity.  I'm for it.  - Tom Lehrer~*~All you need is your beautiful heart
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legomaster00156

#3093
February 19, 2021, 09:55:29 PM
Quote from: Oniya on February 19, 2021, 07:46:04 PM
There's been some hub-bub about Boebert and Greene recently about guns.

Greene has co-sponsored a bill in support of making 'suppressors' (silencers) for guns more readily available.  (Called, disingenuously, the 'Hearing Protection Act'.)

The sponsor of the bill claims to have suffered damage from firearms noise that could have been averted if 'noise suppressors' were more readily available.  Apparently, they've never heard of headphones.

Boebert, on the other hand, has recently shown up on Zoom with 4 guns (a pistol and 3 rifles) 'artistically' displayed in the background.  When called out on unsafe storage (she has four children, according to the article, and being only 34, I'm betting at least one is under 10), she asserted that those were 'ready for use'.

(On a funny note, someone subtweeted about this incident with a display case of BadDragon products behind him.  I'm not sure how I should feel about recognizing them.)   ;D
Hunting-quality earmuffs are readily available for $100 or less.

So good to see my Congressman attaching his name to this.

Shekinah

#3095
February 22, 2021, 02:11:57 PM
Quote from: Haibane on February 22, 2021, 12:07:07 PM
Daft Punk to split after 28 years :( :( :(

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56158867

I know, since I heard the news been playing their music non-stop

The Lovely Tsaritsa

#3096
February 22, 2021, 07:17:50 PM
Quote from: Haibane on February 22, 2021, 12:07:07 PM
Daft Punk to split after 28 years :( :( :(

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56158867

Thats very sad. :-( I used to dance, to their song End of Line, from the Tron movie, all the times.

Haibane

#3097
February 23, 2021, 07:55:17 AM
Such awesome film of Perseverance's Mars landing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56158928

Mechelle

#3098
February 24, 2021, 03:59:56 PM
There is something strange happening in Scotland. Alex Salmond, the former first minister, who was for many years the leader of the Scottish National Party was accused of several charges of sexual assault but acquitted in a criminal case. He has said that these charges were part of an attempt by supporters of his successor, Nicola Sturgeon (who is from the same party!, and was once politically very close) to eject him from public life. This has raised questions about interference by politicians with the judiciary.

What is strange is how unionists of both the right and left have suddenly reversed their usual positions to support Alex Salmond, who would once have been their bete noire, as they see this as a chance to discredit the SNP and the campaign for independence.  Talking of strange friends, Salmond encouraged Donald Trump to invest in Scotland when he was First Minister, although he says he now regrets it, and in recent years has presented a show on RT, owned by the Russian state.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/salmond-sturgeon-scottish-parliament-inquiry-b1806961.html

Haibane

#3099
February 25, 2021, 05:41:17 AM
Such an awful story of criminal abduction and imprisonment at the highest state level. Britain is directly involved in this tragedy due to our need to keep the UAE as a "valuable trading partner and strategic ally".

For British politicians and diplomats to have been complicit in these crimes is sickening.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56188745
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