Here's a weird question- in a war that has not been declared by Congress, are servicemembers eligible for decorations like Purple Hearts? I mean, if the war is illegal, then they shouldn't be, right?
Well...all I can say is...Jesus Fucking Christ All Fucking Mighty. I need to sort my brain out and find a better way to handle what's happening to this brain that desperately needs sorting out after everything that happened this weekend. I've lived through some shit in my 69 years and this "Epic Fury" bullshit has put all the other horrendous stuff in the fucking dirt. The party of pedophiles and their war to cover all their asses from being accountable for the rape, torture and MURDER of children (NO! I will not use the word *allegedly*) has reached the apex of horrific. I need fresh air and the quiet of the forest. May I suggest we all find some time to take care of ourselves and go outside and take a moment to calm our rattled brain and soul.
I love you guys and I will keep saying that for the rest of my days.
Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love. - B.B.
Whoa, that article about the Daily News. It is a useful reminder that Epstein's day job was being a swindler and money-launderer, activities for which he escaped being charged. Plus, what a rogue's gallery of other men in suits.
My computer geek friends are up in arms about a new law, supported by both Dems and GOPedophies, passed in California and signed by Gavin Newson. (A similar law is being debated in Colorado and might perhaps be introduced in Congress.)
The law requires any device with an operating system - from a computer to a phone to a streaming box to a refrigerator - to include an age verification system. Basically requiring the OS to ask you specific information and store it as part of the base system information about the user. Further, it requires the building of an API that can share the age verification info with developers of software for the OS. The law goes into effect in January 2027.
Computer hobbyists are appalled because small, independent, non-commercial operating systems are included - distributions of Linux for Mac and PC and even new operating systems created for hopelessly obsolete platforms, such as the Amiga or the Commodore 64.
The vagueness of it is upsetting privacy advocates. I, for one, could see the required API being used by the Federal government to zero in on specific users and user tracking via Thiel's Palantr.
I'm not saying I'm paranoid about this, but I have been doing thought experiments lately about what would be involved if I dumped my smart phone and replaced it with a dumb phone or landline and completely unhooked from the Internet except for one carefully curated device solely to monitor news.
I've not read the actual law but the tech coverage I've seen, it actually seems very reasonable.
It requires that when a person buys a system, they set the "age" in the user account (no actual verification required, you must be an adult if you bought the darn thing with money after all.)
Then there's an API that can provide that age to websites.
There's no requirement for actual verification or for tracking.
The main issue that raises red flags for me is the API. If it’s strict about providing just the age to a piece of software or website, I could see that. However, it there’s any kind of unique identifier involved, that would translate into something easily abused.
Call me paranoid, trust issues, private or anything else that protects my privacy. These entities have taken over all aspects of privacy and blown them up to use and abuse us and that info. Hell marketing alone allows them into our deepest places without our awareness.
This takes my measures of not trust corporate america and our govt and puts it into the hands of anyone who wants to buy that info. I hate where all of this is going and the masses especially the younger ones don't care. Social media has them spilling their guts about everything and they demand that attention.
Tech companies and conservatives have completely broken any trust I had in tech "doing the right thing". Based on their history with social media, AI, and Cambridge Analytica, I have to see some solid, concrete, damned specific legal proof about what data is collected, how it is used, and how it impacts my privacy. If it's open to any interpretation, like the California law, it will be used against users.
Called out of work today. I think I'm getting over my illness, though. I'm in the final stages of expelling the virus through my nostrils. Man, my head hurts.
Ugh, I completely soaked 2 t-shirts with sweat while sleeping last night. Hopefully the fever has broken. Still don't feel like eating, though I did have some berries and pineapple this morning.
Macabre online chatter dept.: the “Alpine Divorce.” (Daily Dot)
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Not only are these under developed males cowards they are evil. Juveniles who refuse to have a conversation and end things then to want to maim or kill their partners. They are stunted on every level to have a mindset like this.
When I left a guy I dated he said 'I hope you die in a car wreck so no one else can have you'. I was 20 he was 26. Haunted me for years and taught me some life lessons early. There is evil in the world.
I can attest to that unequivocally. After I threw my first husband out for his drunken abuse he showed up one night, got into the house and it got ugly. He picked me up, turned me upside down and threw me pile-driver style headfirst onto a hardwood floor, breaking my neck in three places.
JFC I am so sorry you went through this and worse he walks among the living. The hatred of women has existed since time began. Bibles depend on, thrive and encourage it's survival.
An old boyfriend took me to a mountain camping trip and tried to go over a half-washed-away cliff-side dirt road. My side was 3/4 missing, down the mountain.
I jumped the fuck out before he could get that far. He didn't go further but oh, yes, he was going to. And he was no longer a boyfriend. Obviously.
Your news-ignoring hed gif as an intro to a theme week: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/wonkitty-gets-a-basket
And meme chat (which does acknowledge the news): https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/a7ca8154-0ee8-4cad-bfd5-4503947c6177
"Who's that cat comin' down again?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPAMH9QcNRA
"Sweet Georgia Brown" - Brother Bones
Ah, if only Wonkitty had those sweet Globetrotter moves.
Last week's hint at substance
Has now become more clear
Wonkitty scores a pouchket
And shakes her little rear.
As I look at the week ahead
I can anticipate
That there will be marsupials
And I see that as great.
*grins*
Wonkitty just having fun with a friend and a ball.
She Roos she scores!
Wonky's got game, er, basket!
The butt wiggle!
Standard cat behavior.
An accurate portrayal!
Absolutely. Warming up those fast-twitch rear muscles for the leap.
I presume that's a mars-hoop-ial.
Wow!
(applauds)
LOL!
Wonkitty sank that three!
Wonkitty has a basketball jones.
Now I have that song's refrain running in my head.
"I got a basset-ball jones, oh baby, ooh--ooh--ooh..."
That basset-ball was like a basset-ball to me.
LOL, bassets!
March Madness with Wonkitty and her new Kangaroo friend!
Here's a weird question- in a war that has not been declared by Congress, are servicemembers eligible for decorations like Purple Hearts? I mean, if the war is illegal, then they shouldn't be, right?
Alpine divorce? I'd hate to see how these assholes get rid of pets
With apologies to Dr King, it appears to me the moral arc of the universe bends toward cruelty and depravity.
Well...all I can say is...Jesus Fucking Christ All Fucking Mighty. I need to sort my brain out and find a better way to handle what's happening to this brain that desperately needs sorting out after everything that happened this weekend. I've lived through some shit in my 69 years and this "Epic Fury" bullshit has put all the other horrendous stuff in the fucking dirt. The party of pedophiles and their war to cover all their asses from being accountable for the rape, torture and MURDER of children (NO! I will not use the word *allegedly*) has reached the apex of horrific. I need fresh air and the quiet of the forest. May I suggest we all find some time to take care of ourselves and go outside and take a moment to calm our rattled brain and soul.
I love you guys and I will keep saying that for the rest of my days.
Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love. - B.B.
Yep, I'm going to have to check out for a while. I have to keep my food down to survive this. The constant churning of acids is disrupting my life.
I reeeeeeally don’t feel like paying federal taxes just to have them go to murdering people at home and abroad.
Right?????
I know I'm stating the obvious, and I know why Nancy Mace said it, but Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are not Iranian—not, like, at all.
They're all "Arabs." Just like all Hispanics are "Mexicans" and all Asians are "Chinese." They don't do nuance.
All Rs see is color and accents and that's all the need to know to spew every ist, ism and phobe. Everything not white is their punching bags.
Dolly Parton for President.
She's far too nice for politics.
Whoa, that article about the Daily News. It is a useful reminder that Epstein's day job was being a swindler and money-launderer, activities for which he escaped being charged. Plus, what a rogue's gallery of other men in suits.
Possibly neglected tab story...
My computer geek friends are up in arms about a new law, supported by both Dems and GOPedophies, passed in California and signed by Gavin Newson. (A similar law is being debated in Colorado and might perhaps be introduced in Congress.)
The law requires any device with an operating system - from a computer to a phone to a streaming box to a refrigerator - to include an age verification system. Basically requiring the OS to ask you specific information and store it as part of the base system information about the user. Further, it requires the building of an API that can share the age verification info with developers of software for the OS. The law goes into effect in January 2027.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-at-account-setup/
Computer hobbyists are appalled because small, independent, non-commercial operating systems are included - distributions of Linux for Mac and PC and even new operating systems created for hopelessly obsolete platforms, such as the Amiga or the Commodore 64.
The vagueness of it is upsetting privacy advocates. I, for one, could see the required API being used by the Federal government to zero in on specific users and user tracking via Thiel's Palantr.
I'm not saying I'm paranoid about this, but I have been doing thought experiments lately about what would be involved if I dumped my smart phone and replaced it with a dumb phone or landline and completely unhooked from the Internet except for one carefully curated device solely to monitor news.
Its time for everyone to start using linux.
I've not read the actual law but the tech coverage I've seen, it actually seems very reasonable.
It requires that when a person buys a system, they set the "age" in the user account (no actual verification required, you must be an adult if you bought the darn thing with money after all.)
Then there's an API that can provide that age to websites.
There's no requirement for actual verification or for tracking.
The main issue that raises red flags for me is the API. If it’s strict about providing just the age to a piece of software or website, I could see that. However, it there’s any kind of unique identifier involved, that would translate into something easily abused.
Given that it sounds like this is all legislative wish-casting, who knows what will actually appear.
I've been meaning to switch to Linux for a while, this only helps.
i member you could access "lewd" mode in Leather Goddesses of Phobos by typing your age. honor system and all that.
Call me paranoid, trust issues, private or anything else that protects my privacy. These entities have taken over all aspects of privacy and blown them up to use and abuse us and that info. Hell marketing alone allows them into our deepest places without our awareness.
This takes my measures of not trust corporate america and our govt and puts it into the hands of anyone who wants to buy that info. I hate where all of this is going and the masses especially the younger ones don't care. Social media has them spilling their guts about everything and they demand that attention.
Picks up soap box and exits before I go on.
Tech companies and conservatives have completely broken any trust I had in tech "doing the right thing". Based on their history with social media, AI, and Cambridge Analytica, I have to see some solid, concrete, damned specific legal proof about what data is collected, how it is used, and how it impacts my privacy. If it's open to any interpretation, like the California law, it will be used against users.
Called out of work today. I think I'm getting over my illness, though. I'm in the final stages of expelling the virus through my nostrils. Man, my head hurts.
Ugh, I completely soaked 2 t-shirts with sweat while sleeping last night. Hopefully the fever has broken. Still don't feel like eating, though I did have some berries and pineapple this morning.
Hope you feel better soon.
Please just take it easy and give yourself the time to recover.
I will just remind us that you can't have a "Board Of Peace" housed in a stolen (from the independent Institute Of Peace) building.
Also, fascists can't nurture peace.
Macabre online chatter dept.: the “Alpine Divorce.” (Daily Dot)
---------------
Not only are these under developed males cowards they are evil. Juveniles who refuse to have a conversation and end things then to want to maim or kill their partners. They are stunted on every level to have a mindset like this.
When I left a guy I dated he said 'I hope you die in a car wreck so no one else can have you'. I was 20 he was 26. Haunted me for years and taught me some life lessons early. There is evil in the world.
I didn't read that one. Now I am glad my brain skipped over it.
I learned my lesson pretty early in life, but a few of my friends didn’t and had *very* bleak love lives.
I can attest to that unequivocally. After I threw my first husband out for his drunken abuse he showed up one night, got into the house and it got ugly. He picked me up, turned me upside down and threw me pile-driver style headfirst onto a hardwood floor, breaking my neck in three places.
Evil permeates this void.
I’ll redact all my thoughts except for the one that sends you all the love.
JFC I am so sorry you went through this and worse he walks among the living. The hatred of women has existed since time began. Bibles depend on, thrive and encourage it's survival.
I hope he met a very ironic but satisfying Twilight Zone-like end.
He wound up in jail for a while but unfortunately continues to remain viable.
The only thing to do now is hire those Etsy witches what made Charlie Kirk an angel.
I certainly made an effort to magically snuff his ass.
You got the best revenge by living a good life. I hope his entire life is so miserable he can't stand it.
More than 50 years later, Ike still nails it.
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2373gmka6swamb3wwcdqoefs/bafkreiabgzeuydxw2j2txb27yg5kvdohw6ayewxgz5jvb24z4q5mlasr4u@jpeg
Ike was the LAST respectable, acceptable, genuinely admirable Republican politician.
He wouldn't be a repuke now.
Re: Alpine divorce
So the answer to the question “Are men okay?” is a resounding “no” I guess.
JFC!!!!
An old boyfriend took me to a mountain camping trip and tried to go over a half-washed-away cliff-side dirt road. My side was 3/4 missing, down the mountain.
I jumped the fuck out before he could get that far. He didn't go further but oh, yes, he was going to. And he was no longer a boyfriend. Obviously.
Would have been better with Barron.
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mfz7umiufc2h
Definitely. Fail son #1 is too old to be drafted.
every animal you shoot in caged hunt bullshit should take a year off.
Love the comments.