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2026-11-06 02:52:18 GMT

Voters approve measures barring transgender athletes from women’s sports
>The results are potentially illuminating for Democrats, who have resisted such restrictions on transgender Americans. Although the measures differ in scope and implementation, their success with voters is likely to fuel tensions between progressives, who want their new Democratic majority to fight back, and moderates eager to focus on affordability.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/11/05/transgender-athletes-ban-ballot-measures-01153024

2026-11-05 15:27:48 GMT

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2026-11-05 14:58:49 GMT

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also:
https://x.com/daveweigel/status/2118355869750436025

2026-11-04 03:02:15 GMT

Hakeem Jeffries will be the next Speaker.
Margin of at least 7 seats (polls still open in many states.)

2026-10-28 14:24:51 GMT

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Used it a week or so ago when my password manager glitched.
It's hard to find, but it was the "trouble logging in?" link.
Also, you need a password manager.

2026-10-26 17:37:03 GMT

One more week of cornered rat.
Next up, wounded rat.

2026-10-25 15:21:42 GMT

>Girls and young women arrived at Jeffrey Epstein’s secluded New Mexico ranch expecting help with college, careers, or their finances. Instead, a new state lawsuit alleges, they encountered sexual abuse and a network of associates who helped transport, control, and silence them.
https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/lawsuit-details-alleged-abuse-isolation-at-epsteins-zorro-ranch/

2026-10-15 18:03:49 GMT

Inventor Pastry Fork
https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/2110476518539374692
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2026-10-11 15:09:18 GMT

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2026-10-08 17:06:42 GMT

Fucking hate humidity

2026-10-03 00:19:53 GMT

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I read some time ago, one of the changes Trump made to the Title XI changed the impetus from protecting women from sexual assault on campus to protecting the university. Article points out the emphasis is now also about protecting the men.
It's not just the men who rape. It's the men running the system who protect the men who rape.

2026-09-23 22:18:17 GMT

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Um, there is a presidential line where most presidents can claim ancestry, but it's not a direct line, and it doesn't include all presidents.
Everyone has 8 great grandparents, and 32 great great grandparents, so that's a lot of intermarriage over 250 years.

2026-09-09 18:11:38 GMT

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I don't mind it.
I've watched a lot of old movies, and I still can't figure out Clark Gable, but I don't mind it.

2026-09-08 22:18:17 GMT

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I liked Don't Worry Darling, and The Menu, but they're more thriller than horror

2026-09-02 01:16:43 GMT

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Talking Heads without Byrne is the Tom Tom Club, though. Different band entirely.

2026-09-01 19:44:24 GMT

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prolly why he wants gravy soaked food.
Found some recipes and tips.
https://thepetvet.com/low-fat-dog-recipes/

2026-08-24 18:24:43 GMT

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2026-08-24 17:24:08 GMT

I don't always recommend reading the Bible, but you might want to know the outcome of the battle.
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2026-08-21 16:17:41 GMT

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It's not the most emotionally stable fan club.

2026-08-20 20:27:09 GMT

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>Warning: Allowing livestock to develop a taste for protein-rich carcasses can lead to behavioral changes, potentially making them more aggressive toward handlers.
https://www.chefsresource.com/faq/can-a-pig-eat-a-human-in-8-minutes/

2026-08-20 15:50:59 GMT

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My first react was *NO! I love sea lions!!*
Then, I realized you didn't mean the oceanic kind...

2026-08-20 07:07:06 GMT

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Some people just want rulez. Easier than thinking.

2026-08-15 20:23:02 GMT

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2026-08-12 23:51:31 GMT

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Haven't watched them play this season, but last year's crew was a severe disappointment.
Yankees v Dodgers is the oldest rivalry match up, and they only played one good game.
Ain't what they used to be.

2026-08-12 23:36:32 GMT

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Yankees ain't what they used to be.

2026-08-12 16:13:57 GMT

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I'm okay with this one. Both the result and the count.
(That's an RCP staff article. RCP is funded by a very partisan billionaire. If you want to believe anything about whether the election was fair, check with 3 sources.)

2026-08-05 16:08:38 GMT

Man arrested after dressing up in 'Grim Reaper' costume on hospital roof and staring at patients
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hospital-grim-reaper-man-arrested-37511832

2026-07-30 20:27:48 GMT

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Those are helpful. Do they have a screen at the bottom to help you scoop?

2026-07-30 17:45:43 GMT

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Sauce looks yum.

2026-07-30 00:17:44 GMT

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So, it looks like I'm not the only one who has scorched the cutting board....

2026-07-29 20:42:23 GMT

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He marketed his band by calling his fanbase a "cult". People took it seriously.
(Made me curious, so I had to go down a rabbit hole to see what's that was about.)

2026-07-28 01:02:36 GMT

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if they can prove it was for financial gain (ie, going public would have threatened his career), that's a special circumstance for a potential death penalty

2026-07-28 00:33:31 GMT

> A judge ruled Monday that there is enough evidence to put singer D4vd on trial in the killing and dismemberment of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez after, authorities said, she had threatened to expose their relationship and crater his career.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ap-final-texts-from-14-year-old-girl-to-singer-d4vd-shown-in-court-at-hearing-on-her-killing/

2026-07-17 02:07:07 GMT

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It was a firehose of bullshit on X.
I could see the fire from my place, and I was watching fire officials give safety briefings to let us know what was going on, and there was a bunch of MAGA trolls screaming about vaccuming the forest (among other things).
Rumor mongering during a disaster is a great way to get people killed.

2026-07-16 22:28:34 GMT

After 34 years, Kristi Noem is divorcing, says mother
>Corinne Arnold, Noem's mother, told the Daily Mail that the former Homeland Security secretary shared the decision with family members this spring. The revelation comes months after a Daily Mail report alleged Bryon Noem paid adult entertainers and cross-dressed during role-playing encounters, which left the family "blindsided," according to a spokesperson.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/07/10/kristi-noem-divorce-husband-bryon-noem/90879054007/

2026-07-05 17:44:59 GMT

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Do not blame them.
You have to know which restaurants offer healthy meals, and which do not. It takes a while to find your way. Even at the restaurants that offer a ton of options, like Cheesecake, there are decent options but it takes practice to figure out which.
And then, some people start feeling deprived because they ordered grilled chicken while their neighbor is chowing down or a double bacon cheeseburger with a side of ranch.

2026-06-21 16:50:01 GMT

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*VaNDaLS did it!!*
When they start with that, you know it's not going to be fixed anytime soon.

2026-06-11 16:26:10 GMT

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Doesn't help that FIFA gave that asshat a prize. LA is definitiely not feeling it.

2026-06-01 00:04:03 GMT

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Mebbe you should move out of the brown people hemisphere?

2026-05-16 18:28:29 GMT

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Much. U boat.

2026-04-11 22:16:34 GMT

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I think it's "bumper sticker thinking" that appeals, not RW or LW ideas.
Bumper stickers with simplistic ideas where you don't have to think things through.

2026-04-08 20:28:18 GMT

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"Fan" was first used late 19th century.
Yes, they attack the creator for failing to meet their ideals; JKR "violated" their fantasy social justice movement. BUT, Shatner went on 2nd City, and called out Trekkies as incels, and has been doing comicons ever since to make up for it.
The attacks on JKR are viscious, but it's a matter of degree, not novelty (possibly because she's a woman not a man).

2026-04-07 22:08:41 GMT

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A full tank's weight uses more gas. So, they suggest a half tank.
I don't know the math on open windows v AC. Interesting question.

2026-04-07 20:27:13 GMT

(Outside of "check prices online", everything is the same as it was during the 1970's)
10 Tips to Get the Most Out of a Tank of Gas
- Obey the speed limit
- Avoid hard acceleration and braking whenever possible.
- Save money and pass on premium gas unless it’s “required.”
- Remove roof racks when they’re not being used.
- Turn off the AC when it isn't hot
- Check gas prices online
- Minimize travel
- Buy good-quality gas (off brands can be cheaper, but be wary)
- Stay at half a tank
- Check tire pressure

2026-03-29 00:03:38 GMT

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How do you know I wasn't chanting for Krishna?

2026-03-27 22:34:32 GMT

>Mr. Buria told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/hegseth-promotion-list.html
https://archive.ph/r9Dkx#selection-871.0-871.143

2026-03-25 18:11:17 GMT

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Well, it's early. I'm not sure the details, but yes. Pocket change for Zuck.

2026-03-23 02:23:55 GMT

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I sewed covers for my latest set. I used old jeans, but you could use any cloth remnant you have lying around if you don't want denim.
Cool thing about using pants tho -- you can use a leg to make a lumbar cushion very easily.

2026-03-21 18:48:21 GMT

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2026-03-18 16:56:05 GMT

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She's a wingnut. She has an interesting background, but a hardcore wingnut.

2026-03-12 23:45:05 GMT

Lost's shitlist has grown.
Bag boys who decide they don't need to do their job when you pick up in store. I bring my own bags. They're still supposed to help -- doesn't matter if you didn't stand in line with the other peasants.

2026-02-17 05:49:50 GMT

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and for the ants, they are a Colombian delicacy (Hormigas Culonas), and they came in a can like this. I was feeling adventurous that day.
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2026-01-18 02:01:25 GMT

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I've given up asking why some people think an intraparty civil war is a good idea these days.
But, to be fair, politicians are always fundraising.

2026-01-15 05:16:27 GMT

Trump Is Reportedly Funneling Money From Venezuelan Oil Sales To a Bank Account in Qatar
(I think that's recommended in How to Be a Corrupt Despot And Still Win For Dummies)
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump/trump-is-reportedly-funneling-money-from-venezuelan-oil-sales-to-a-bank-account-in-qatar/

2026-01-10 00:42:08 GMT

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Fill it with diamonds. Make a real magic circle.

2026-01-08 01:36:48 GMT

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Check the footage that DHS didn't edit.
Check out they neither identified themselves nor gave any warning.
Check how the officer in question was on the side of the car trying to open her door.
Check the video.

2026-01-07 20:24:27 GMT

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Off duty ICE officer killed a man in LA County on NYE. Guy had a gun, but it seems likely he was firing it into the air to celebrate the New Year. Deplorable practice, LAPD condemns it, but they don't kill people for doing it. (ICE guy is under investigation by LAPD).
Also ICE chased a man onto the freeway a couple of months ago where he was killed by passing car. I live in the land of freeways and police chases --- but that's a very rare event.
3 homicides in less than 6 months isn't an accident. It's policy, from the top.
(I'm only tracking the most egregious. I know there are more.)

2026-01-06 17:12:56 GMT

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The expensive ingredient is the olives. If you need to toss....
Childhood food is iffy. My sister loved Kraft Mac and Cheese, so my dad made it all the time and called me picky for skipping dinner. (Took me 20 years to find out all Parmesan doesn't smell that bad.)

2026-01-06 17:02:31 GMT

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With lime jello?

2026-01-03 10:15:08 GMT

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Really, dude? You gonna go there?
In 1982, I had my first lengthy convo with a 6 foot tall, broad shouldered transsexual. I suggested women would be concerned about sexual assault if single sex bathrooms were turned into multisex versions, something a 6 foot tall, broad shoulder transsexual did not have to worry about.
His response? "Well, women aren't really raped. Not like they say they are."
G'head dismiss the reasons we have women's bathrooms in the first place. Just like he did.
And the sports issue is not imaginary. If you got your head out of your ass, you'd maybe consider that there have been several studies that women are at a disadvantage in mixed sex sports, no matter how long the men have been taking E, but not one that proves the opposite.
And there are many newly won rights women have achieved now being extended to men to dilute the effectiveness of women's rights, the first being the right of women to have their own movement to advocate for women's rights.

2026-01-02 23:48:09 GMT

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My fave part was the radio show where he said Americans are not exempt, power hungry narcissists exist everywhere, and when the sargeant tells him the doctor he's a German -- Germans are not different.
It's Arendt's "banality of evil" principle put on stage.

2025-12-28 23:28:52 GMT

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Welp, the last name I got from my father is a descriptor name that would have been applied circa late Middle Ages to (mostly illiterate) foreigners who migrated from a specific country.
That means the foreigners didn't have to be related, just from that country - and that country was known for sending people to other countries.
Everyone who has that name *knows* that. And yet I still run across people trying to trace us all back to a single ancestor.
I feel ya.

2025-12-23 17:54:02 GMT

Higher than expected GDP growth. Hospitals and health care are most of it.
If you think that's good news, I got a bridge to sell you.

2025-12-14 05:44:49 GMT

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Fidel couldn't get Gillette razors during the revolution, and then there was the boycott after.
That was his explanation for the beard. Couldn't get his fave razor.

2025-12-07 09:58:04 GMT

Now, who' gonna try tell tell me this isn't the action of a racist, malignant narcissist?
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2025-12-05 17:10:00 GMT

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Always thus.
Barbara Streisand is a "bitch", but Stanley Kubrick was a "perfectionist"

2025-11-29 18:04:08 GMT

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Yes, they do. The car wash was local, so let me clue you in.
Entering private property without a warrant is trespass. A court will decide, but it is trespass. "Reasonable suspicion of illegal activity" -- being undocumented is a fucking misdemeanor.
Most of the car wash employees had green cards and work permits. I've heard people say all did, but I'll go with most.
And the majority undocumented don't walk by a sign. They enter the country legally and overstay. The people who come up from the border these days -- most enter and turn themselves in to the BP, and are given asylum, which is then decided by a judge. Those are the people who do the legal thing, show up at court and get arrested.

2025-11-25 16:28:03 GMT

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I'm thinking AI is meant to crush workers. Labor is shown as an expense on the stock portfolio which executives are always trying to reduce.
Of course, one needs a salary to be a consumer...

2025-11-24 23:10:37 GMT

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you work in insurance? small incestuous industry. don't burn bridges.
that said, grudges are natural.

2025-11-21 00:05:59 GMT

Just a normal day, when POTUS is suggesting members of Congress be arrested and tried for doing their jobs.
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2025-11-14 15:03:27 GMT

Conservatives. Bringing back all the hits of the past 50 to 100 years.
>President Donald Trump has signed a spending bill that includes provisions to ban most consumable hemp products.
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/congress-passes-bill-to-recriminalize-hemp-thc-products-sending-it-to-trumps-desk/

2025-11-05 04:50:42 GMT

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Someone posted that the GOP proposition to gerrymander Kansas failed, but I haven't looked it up.
Maryland was the latest blue state to announce they'll gerrymander, and I think Virginia will after tonight's gov's race.
(I actually have mixed feelings - it's necessary, but we will probably lose one of the few reasonable sounding CA Republicans, but probably keep one of the worst.)
Meanwhile, the state that kicked it off, Texas, approved a measure to that only citizens can vote. Obviously necessary since it's already the law....

2025-10-28 03:26:56 GMT

Exit at the newly censored CBS News continues.
https://www.status.news/p/john-dickerson-cbs-evening-news-resigns
https://archive.ph/G3gbc

2025-10-24 03:07:59 GMT

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I suppose its good we don't have a rainy season coming before the plants have a chance to grow back on the hillsides.

2025-10-20 15:40:04 GMT

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Yep. I think those tweets were evidence that made them drop the case.

2025-10-19 13:04:31 GMT

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If you don't have buttermilk, you can use sour milk.
Make sour milk by adding a tablespoon of lemon (or vinegar) to enough milk to make 245 grams. Let sit for 5 minutes. That what I use for baking when I don't have buttermilk. Never used it for the marinade, but I think it would work.
(You can also use whey - but I don't think that's sold anywhere. I end up with whey when I make farm cheese or yogurt cheese, and there's only so much whey I can freeze for smoothies so I tried it with the chicken.)

2025-10-04 17:57:05 GMT

K. So my traditional "horror" movies to watch during pumpkin season.
- Practical Magic and Hocus Pocus (yeah I know, but those kinda have to happen).
- The Craft.
- In the Company of Wolves
- An American Werewolf in London
- The Others
- Nosferatu (the original silent)
- Night of the Living Dead
- Bride of Frankenstein
- Young Frankenstein
- Lost Boys
Feel free to add, but I don't watch slashers. Wicker Man isn't on the list, because that's more of an Easter film.

2025-10-02 00:43:02 GMT

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Um, see that blue county at the bottom called "Imperial"?
That's 85% of the entire country's winter fruit and veg.

2025-09-26 14:57:56 GMT

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That does happen.
It's a pretty steep curb tho, 26% to 87%. Higher, probably. That high? No.
Traditional roles means women stay home and even men can grasp that that means no 2 salary income families, and that the women they are interested in would not be as interesting.
Also, the poll about rape - I remember another study, this one done by law enforcement about the number of rapes a convicted rapist does. They do most within a specific age range, and they rape multiple women, and account for a large percentage of the total.

2025-09-17 22:34:28 GMT

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It would be useful if they didn't take their personal issues out on other people and call it "politics", but there is a high propensity for people in politics to suffer from mental disorders.
The data is good; it has been compiled by nonpartisan organizations, and there is no excuse for targeting the "other side" unless you have venial and partisan motives.
And that is what Trump is doing, using Kirk's death as an excuse to implement authoritarian measures.
You do not have a single leg to stand on in this discussion. I see it. Why TF don't you?

2025-09-17 04:31:46 GMT

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And CATO is still a conservative think tank, featuring a "Why Insurance Companies are Your Friends" editorial on the first page of their website.

2025-09-16 08:41:37 GMT

"False. I recently checked the ADL data, which has some issues because they include non-ideological murders. But even with those removed, over the past decade right-wing extremists would account for about half of the murders, with about 35% by Islamist extremists, and 8% by left-wing extremist."
Glenn Kessler, author and former fact-checker at the Washington Post
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-2673996566/

2025-09-16 03:39:12 GMT

There's free speech and then there's hate speech…We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech." Pam Bondi.
Also, every woke TRA for the past decade.
"Hate speech", FYI, is free speech. Just posting this quote because some people still don't understand that MAGAts and TRAs are 2 sides of the same coin.

2025-09-12 18:30:30 GMT

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Yer, then we unbanned them (plastic industry sponsored a referendum), then banned them again when they again became a problem.
25% of all the garbage that would go into the sea from the wetlands is plastic bags. That doesn't count the crap running off our streets. At least the county has screens to catch some of the wetlands runoff.
I once watched a hungry sea lion tearing at a shiny bit of plastic. The tourists were all "oh, that's cute". I was horrified. The sea lion thought it was a fish.
There are moments that clarify things, and that was one for me.

2025-09-12 18:07:00 GMT

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I have a collection of reusables.
One quarter of all the trash that goes into our local wetlands which empties into the Pacific is plastic bags.
So, I will continue to use my reusables because I know specifically what the issue is.

2025-09-12 17:46:07 GMT

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Meanwhile, Truth Social banging on about the glories of a military takeover of the US to "own the libtards"
https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-reactions-charlie-kirk-shooting-civil-war/#intcid=_wired-right-rail_5797b9da-4a91-4b55-963f-b0ceefa3471b_popular4-2
https://archive.ph/4zKNk

2025-09-11 22:24:33 GMT

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https://youtu.be/vMxzHagwGI8

2025-09-11 22:04:24 GMT

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projecting again?

2025-09-11 20:22:38 GMT

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Besides the attempted kidnapping of a governor, the attempted overthrow of an election, and driving a car into a crowd during Trump's first term, righties have little honest space to talk.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/11/nx-s1-5537908/political-violence-charlie-kirk

2025-09-11 14:45:33 GMT

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yer, you always find some obscure tweet, can't you?
it's almost as if you specifically look for them.

2025-09-11 02:34:24 GMT

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And of course there's more.
I didn't include Biden, Obama or Hillary, etc., but it doesn't matter.
RW delusionists will whine that the problem is that they're called fascist without ever once trying not to act like fascists.

2025-09-09 18:35:13 GMT

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Before we "googled" things, we "xeroxed" a copy. Brand names tend to migrate. I think it's often losing battle, fighting to keep a popular brand name as meant, but I can see why a company tries.
(I said sorry. Had to drop that G to make it fit.)

2025-09-06 00:20:46 GMT

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Well, you're the one who thinks you understand math and no one else does.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/ahead-kennedy-hearing-gop-saw-poll-showing-trump-voters-support-vaccin-rcna229243

2025-09-05 14:26:03 GMT

Yer, you end vaccines, you're gonna need more doctors and nurses (and billing clerks).
Today's jobs report.
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2025-09-04 11:55:38 GMT

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Yer, saw that and thought -- WTF. German is *not that big*. Explains why they're the most popular party, too.
One was 80 years old. Another was 71.
(And I'm trying not to resort to stereotypes, but skinheads were not known for abstinence, some of those had to have been skinheads when younger. Substance abuse shortens the lifespan.)

2025-09-03 14:13:21 GMT

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Yer. Nate Silver said D's can win "if they avoid bluskyism" and they trended it in outrage.
I wish twitter's CEO was sane

2025-09-01 17:23:57 GMT

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It also depends on *where* you were in the US.
If you didn't have radio access, you thought thrash, Big Hair and Metal and old 60s' were all there was. If you did, or there were good clubs around, you were listening to New Wave, punk and Prince (long before he released Purple Rain).
I switched over almost entirely to New Wave, et al, cuz we had KROQ and the local NPR station, plus the local club scene, but there were some crossovers. Bang Your Head, for ex.
And then, I get on the bus to go visit my mom in a another part of metro, and rap was playing on the boom boxes.
Magical times.

2025-08-30 17:56:24 GMT

BTW, the *only* time a hospital is required by law to treat a person who cannot pay is when the patient will die without treatment. The vast majority of patients who cannot pay are citizens.
See above when a RW conspiracy theorist tells you all about "illegals driving up health care costs by getting free care in the emergency room".
>"Federal immigration agents are more routinely showing up at California medical facilities as the Trump administration ramps up deportations.
>"They may come to the emergency room, bringing in someone who’s suffering a medical crisis while being detained. They may wait in the lobby, as agents did for two weeks at an L.A.-area hospital waiting for a woman to be discharged. Or they may even chase people inside, as federal agents did at a Southern California surgical center. "
https://calmatters.org/health/2025/08/immigration-hospitals-workers-fear/

2025-08-16 18:17:36 GMT

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Well, he's got part of that right - the whole new set of bones every 10 years.
The ones you buy at the Halloween store get raggedy after a decade.

2025-07-27 15:06:02 GMT

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Still, there's only so much you can do. (My fam were really abusers, so I learned to walk away.)
You risk becoming The Nag if you tell your parents more than once a week. You little sister needs to find her own way. Be there if (when) she needs a shoulder, but she needs to make her own mistakes.