vxbush 5/7/2021 5:44:15 AM

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lucius septimius 5/7/2021 6:10:12 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

Sort of/not really.  I'm about to head off to the Illinois/Wisconsin borderlands for four days.  There is practically an infinite number of places I'd rather be going.

vxbush 5/7/2021 6:13:47 AM

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In #2 lucius septimius said: Sort of/not really.  I'm about to head off to the Illinois/Wisconsin borderlands for four days.  There is practically an infinite number of places I'd rather be going.

Yes, based on what you've said in the past, I'm sure this is not a happy trip for you. Are any of the kids coming along? 

lucius septimius 5/7/2021 6:22:23 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3:

No, they still have school.  Which is for the best.

Kosh's Shadow 5/7/2021 6:44:41 AM

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Just checked an email my wife got about a Paypal order. No links in the email (except a fake unsubscribe link that went to myaccount.google.com but without any account info). Said to call a number within 24 hours if this is an error.

Logged in to paypal - nothing about this order. Looked up the phone number in google - first result was from reddit, Paypal scam - call the number and you get someone in India trying to get your paypal info.

Marked as spam and deleted.

doppelganglander 5/7/2021 7:43:29 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 2:

Wishing you safe travels and less misery than you expect. 

JCM 5/7/2021 7:45:36 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 5:

I get scam emails from just about everthing out there even things I don't use. The links are never valid.

Some of them are really, really good, except for the links.

Occasional Reader 5/7/2021 7:50:06 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 5/7/2021 8:09:07 AM

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In #8 Occasional Reader said: Fridays are racist, and expressions of white supremacy.

What about Black Friday?

buzzsawmonkey 5/7/2021 8:17:00 AM

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In #9 Kosh's Shadow said: What about Black Friday?

It'll be fun to see if they call the Friday after Thanksgiving "Friday of Color" this year.

JCM 5/7/2021 8:23:16 AM

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From the radio, Gov. Stupid and Lazy is ask if what drives a shutdown decisions.

His answer: Swear as accurate as I can render it.

Well, you don't make a decision until you make a decision and until make a decision you haven't made a decision.

What's worse is none of the press gaggle burst out in laughter.

buzzsawmonkey 5/7/2021 8:42:47 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 5/7/2021 8:45:24 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 12:

In Firesign Theatre's The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, they go to a low dive with continuous entertainment - The Moebius Strip - they wail all night. Or maybe that's Mobyus strip, they whale all night

vxbush 5/7/2021 8:48:45 AM

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In #11 JCM said: From the radio, Gov. Stupid and Lazy is ask if what drives a shutdown decisions. His answer: Swear as accurate as I can render it. Well, you don't make a decision until you make a decision and until make a decision you haven't made a decision. What's worse is none of the press gaggle burst out in laughter.

You know, when I first started watching the news back in the 70's, I honestly thought these people were at least competent. But nowadays it's clear that these people are beyond stupid. 

JCM 5/7/2021 9:22:09 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 14:

When I was high school I had joined the local volunteer FD. On my first fatal fire, some reporter asked how I felt about it.... I remember thinking what kind of jackass question is that!

vxbush 5/7/2021 9:24:16 AM

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In #15 JCM said: When I was high school I had joined the local volunteer FD. On my first fatal fire, some reporter asked how I felt about it.... I remember thinking what kind of jackass question is that!

Ah, even back then, you could identify the fixation on feelings. 

buzzsawmonkey 5/7/2021 10:13:55 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 5/7/2021 11:06:58 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 17:

No, but that reminds me I have the idea for an app - a sort of Facebook for dogs, called BehindBook. However, that needs the development of smellphones.

Kosh's Shadow 5/7/2021 11:51:36 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 18:

This thread has gone to the dogs

Occasional Reader 5/7/2021 11:54:28 AM

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Occasional Reader 5/7/2021 11:58:17 AM

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Antifa/BLM seize control of Street in Portland, Oregon; point guns at motorists; assault and briefly kidnap one motorist.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2021/05/07/portland-blm-antifa-draw-guns-on-drivers-to-enforce-no-go-zone-in-broad-daylight-n1445236

this is what “insurrection“ looks like. Does anybody in power care?

buzzsawmonkey 5/7/2021 12:52:16 PM

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In #18 Kosh's Shadow said: a sort of Facebook for dogs, called BehindBook.

There's already an outfit which is called "Behind the Book," which brings authors into inner-city elementary schools in NYC---so you might have some trademark issues there...

Kosh's Shadow 5/7/2021 1:13:38 PM

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In #22 buzzsawmonkey said: There's already an outfit which is called "Behind the Book," which brings authors into inner-city elementary schools in NYC---so you might have some trademark issues there...

Of course, the other problem is making a smellphone the dogs wouldn't chew up

lucius septimius 5/7/2021 1:21:09 PM

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In #21 Occasional Reader said: Does anybody in power care?

Of course they care.  They're very glad to see that their Storm Troopers are keeping up the good work.

JCM 5/7/2021 1:41:39 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 21:

Those are Brown Shirts for those in power.

Kosh's Shadow 5/7/2021 1:57:51 PM

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Others are coming to the conclusion COVID is the result of a lab leak

It’s a stretch, in other words, to get the pandemic to break out naturally outside Wuhan and then, without leaving any trace, to make its first appearance there.

For the lab escape scenario, a Wuhan origin for the virus is a no-brainer. Wuhan is home to China’s leading center of coronavirus research where, as noted above, researchers were genetically engineering bat coronaviruses to attack human cells. They were doing so under the minimal safety conditions of a BSL2 lab. If a virus with the unexpected infectiousness of SARS2 had been generated there, its escape would be no surprise.

Occasional Reader 5/7/2021 2:20:40 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 26:

At this point I think that is the most likely explanation.

Occasional Reader 5/7/2021 2:23:16 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 24: Reply to JCM in 25:

I keep seeing references in conservative media to the idea that “the 70s are coming back“. I think that is an optimistic scenario. This kind of shit did not happen in the 70s.  Even Rabbit Bait would have recoiled, I think, at the idea of armed extreme left militias taking over US city centers.

JCM 5/7/2021 3:09:15 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 5/7/2021 4:04:28 PM

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In #28 Occasional Reader said: I keep seeing references in conservative media to the idea that “the 70s are coming back“. I think that is an optimistic scenario. This kind of shit did not happen in the 70s.  Even Rabbit Bait would have recoiled, I think, at the idea of armed extreme left militias taking over US city centers.

The '70's aren't back, but the '70's radicals are back and they're in charge

Kosh's Shadow 5/7/2021 4:12:08 PM

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In #29 JCM said: Geoff Upson says he has drawn about 100 penises around potholes in a bid to force his local council to fix them

They'll be declared street art and protected; you can take that to the banksky