I saw Kubo in the theater and was amazed by everything about it. I did not know it was stop-motion animation, the actions seemed too fluid and natural for that. I thought it was CGI imitating stop-motion. You learn something every day.
It's 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Sunday in Chicago. Open up a tab for the great show 𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘰 𝘐𝘯𝘯 on wdcb.org/internet-stream Apologies for the late-ish notice.
Here is WDCB's program description: "Host René Ávila carries a long tradition of Sunday afternoon Latin Jazz on WDCB into the future as he brings you along on a weekly trip to the 𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘰 𝘐𝘯𝘯. Tune in every Sunday from 4 - 6pm for 2 hours of jazz with clave, as Ávila reaches back to the classic Afro-Cuban sounds of the '40s & '50s and explores Latin Jazz styles along the way to the current sounds of today."
Each week, we call out the 5 most horrendous ways news orgs are letting down the American public with their attempts to normalize Trump, and tilt the election for MAGA.
Our massive pressure campaigns to hold corporate media accountable are working. But, as these top major fails from this week prove, we can’t let up for a second.
This raises all sorts of concerns and problems for anyone who wants to fairly vote in Georgia. If you were reported do you file a change of address? Would that be considered "registering twice"?
This lady is filing so many of these reports there is a significant backlog. There would be no way for someone to verify their "status" because it is sitting in a document box in someone's office.
This is kind of a good example of what I think is the disadvantage of being people of integrity falling victim to those without. Of course the Dems would never organize something like this. Only noble suffering for us.
Lastly how tf can some lady see it her "right" to scrub the roles of the state of Georgia? How is their not having perfect registration adversely effecting her?
Is anyone here having trouble with Android voice recognition when texting? A couple of weeks ago my Samsung phone had an OS update, and since then voice recognition absolutely sucks. It used to recognize punctuation when I said things like "comma" or "question mark" but now it just types those as words in the text. And it no longer capitalizes my name, or any other word that would normally be capitalized, such as days of the week or names of months. Also, if I pause for ONE SECOND it stops recording and I have to press the "Press to talk" button. It used to work quite well, but now sending a text using my voice has become very time consuming and they are full of errors.
On the Iphone, there are allegedly settings for geezers to keep Siri from cutting you off if you aren't accomplished at speed mumbling. It might have a more dignified sounding name.
Please don't hate Skynet, it needs to learn how not to communicate, for when that's appropriate.
Enshittification is hitting Android hard. All the map apps decided that instead of driveways, they would target the building. Long, hidden driveways now cause real problems.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand now they're switching to claiming that the immigrants eating dogs are Bosnians.
And this leads to a (no pun intended) pet peeve of mine which I mention here from time to time- do they mean "Bosnian" or "Bosniak"? Because Bosnia, which obviously has experienced genocide in a lot of our lifetimes, is a majority Muslim country and Bosniaks is the term for Muslims from the country. It's important because there's already a virulent anti-Muslim racist streak in the GOP (especially with Loomer now on board) which this could be trying to capitalise on.
The October Surprise this year will be them unearthing Jonathan Swift's modest proposal and using it to bash the "IRISH Menace". ( that Hannibal Lecter thing is just a set-up for this "bombshell")
Added bonus: they will circulate a family tree showing Taylor Swift being a direct descendant of that famous Snark maestro and claim Taylor was "just kidding".
When many Bosnians settled in St. Louis back in the 90's and eventually began to buy homes in residential neighborhoods, there was a lot of fuss in the news about them smoking raw meat they had purchased in their garages or other outbuildings, because some of their neighbors apparently found the smell of the spices they used to be offensive. Meanwhile, one of my near neighbors let his dog poop in his fenced backyard every day, and never, ever picked any of it up, to the point that his next-door neighbors couldn't sit outside in their own back yards because of the smell and the flies that the massive amount of dog poop attracted. Frankly, I would rather smell spices than dog shit.
When I lived in a courtyard apartment building many years ago, the courtyard was full of small yew bushes and grass and a central circle where we could plant flowers. The landlord did not allow pets. Then the complex was sold to new owners who allowed pets, and instantly half of my neighbors got a dog and walked it in the courtyard where the dogs peed on all the bushes and grass and killed them, and the owners left the poop everywhere. Things got so bad I couldn't even open my living room windows during nice weather because of the smell of dog poop. I complained to the landlord, who did nothing, so I bought a house and moved, and I told the landlord WHY I was moving.
This is the same complex where I came home from work one day, opened my living room windows (before the dogs became a problem), and instantly smelled a strong smell of natural gas. Called the gas company. When they arrived they evacuated the building saying there was a massive leak that could cause an explosion. Every single one of my neighbors bitched about having to go outside while the gas company fixed the problem, and when I asked them why they hadn't reported the leak, they said things like "I smelled it but I didn't want to get involved" or "I smelled it but I didn't think it was important" or "I smelled it but didn't know what it was."
Let's face it ... a significant percentage of human beings are just stupid.
So you end up getting these "people" saying "waaa this party won't GUARTENTEE the KILLING WILL END . . . so I'm going to vote for the party that promises EVERYONE WILL GET KILLED".
Wait…isn’t Kushner trying to build a resort in that part of the world? That seems counterproductive…wait never mind their targets for this crap won’t ever travel outside the US and are not the type of patrons the Kushner/Trump crowd wants at their facilities…even if they could afford it after sending all their money to the campaign.
I hope this works. I have tinnitus and I have difficulty understanding conversation in loud environments. In crowded rooms like restaurants, the people several feet away from me are louder than the people next to me, and often I don’t understand most of the words or mishear them. But I demoed a set of top-of-the-line hearing aids five years ago, tailored to my hearing profile, and while I heard music better they did nothing for my speech comprehension in loud environments.
I just wrote a very sizeable check for a pair of AI enhanced Starkey hearing aids. I won't get them for two weeks. I'm cautiously optimistic that they'll help, but I've had hearing loss since I was a kid and got scarlet fever. Nothing can fix tinnitus short of cochlear implants, and from what I've heard they don't sound natural.
The Widex pair I had were very nice and lasted 8 years. I wanted to save some money with the next set and went with Costco's Philips offering. It's got a "speech-in-noise" setting that effectively compresses most bands except the main speech bands. Not perfect but very helpful in a loud restaurant or crowd. They don't have the overall quality of sound of the Widex brand, but one can get used to any set of speakers given a known reference. Like, does a piano sound like a piano to me? If not, I get the audiologist to re-tweak the bands.
Vance: "Hey look, a hornets' nest! I'll just poke it until the hornets come out and sting all my constituents while I sit here, protected in my glass bubble."
Next week's Movie Night selection is 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-sept-21-the?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I saw Kubo in the theater and was amazed by everything about it. I did not know it was stop-motion animation, the actions seemed too fluid and natural for that. I thought it was CGI imitating stop-motion. You learn something every day.
Oh man, if I had noticed, I would have watched. I love this movie. The first 30 minutes are just magical.
Just want to say, Kubo and the Two Strings was a really good movie.
It's 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Sunday in Chicago. Open up a tab for the great show 𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘰 𝘐𝘯𝘯 on wdcb.org/internet-stream Apologies for the late-ish notice.
Here is WDCB's program description: "Host René Ávila carries a long tradition of Sunday afternoon Latin Jazz on WDCB into the future as he brings you along on a weekly trip to the 𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘰 𝘐𝘯𝘯. Tune in every Sunday from 4 - 6pm for 2 hours of jazz with clave, as Ávila reaches back to the classic Afro-Cuban sounds of the '40s & '50s and explores Latin Jazz styles along the way to the current sounds of today."
In case of streaming difficulty, go here: https://wdcb.org/streaming-support
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤'𝐬 𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟓 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬
𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑
Each week, we call out the 5 most horrendous ways news orgs are letting down the American public with their attempts to normalize Trump, and tilt the election for MAGA.
Our massive pressure campaigns to hold corporate media accountable are working. But, as these top major fails from this week prove, we can’t let up for a second.
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/this-weeks-top-5-corporate-media
NYT article mentioned down thread. Hopefully this works as a gifty link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/us/politics/georgia-voting-2024-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K04.CWy5.ywZRx3Z-HqAG&smid=url-share
This raises all sorts of concerns and problems for anyone who wants to fairly vote in Georgia. If you were reported do you file a change of address? Would that be considered "registering twice"?
This lady is filing so many of these reports there is a significant backlog. There would be no way for someone to verify their "status" because it is sitting in a document box in someone's office.
This is kind of a good example of what I think is the disadvantage of being people of integrity falling victim to those without. Of course the Dems would never organize something like this. Only noble suffering for us.
Lastly how tf can some lady see it her "right" to scrub the roles of the state of Georgia? How is their not having perfect registration adversely effecting her?
Is anyone here having trouble with Android voice recognition when texting? A couple of weeks ago my Samsung phone had an OS update, and since then voice recognition absolutely sucks. It used to recognize punctuation when I said things like "comma" or "question mark" but now it just types those as words in the text. And it no longer capitalizes my name, or any other word that would normally be capitalized, such as days of the week or names of months. Also, if I pause for ONE SECOND it stops recording and I have to press the "Press to talk" button. It used to work quite well, but now sending a text using my voice has become very time consuming and they are full of errors.
On the Iphone, there are allegedly settings for geezers to keep Siri from cutting you off if you aren't accomplished at speed mumbling. It might have a more dignified sounding name.
Please don't hate Skynet, it needs to learn how not to communicate, for when that's appropriate.
Enshittification is hitting Android hard. All the map apps decided that instead of driveways, they would target the building. Long, hidden driveways now cause real problems.
I turned my phone into a Google app somehow, and now it totally sucks. I wish I knew how to reverse that.
I detest cell phones.
I want to become a Luddite after I retire.
I've been one for years, ever since Win2K was released. I began to think very fondly of DOS 5.0.
Command line ftw!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand now they're switching to claiming that the immigrants eating dogs are Bosnians.
And this leads to a (no pun intended) pet peeve of mine which I mention here from time to time- do they mean "Bosnian" or "Bosniak"? Because Bosnia, which obviously has experienced genocide in a lot of our lifetimes, is a majority Muslim country and Bosniaks is the term for Muslims from the country. It's important because there's already a virulent anti-Muslim racist streak in the GOP (especially with Loomer now on board) which this could be trying to capitalise on.
The October Surprise this year will be them unearthing Jonathan Swift's modest proposal and using it to bash the "IRISH Menace". ( that Hannibal Lecter thing is just a set-up for this "bombshell")
Added bonus: they will circulate a family tree showing Taylor Swift being a direct descendant of that famous Snark maestro and claim Taylor was "just kidding".
When many Bosnians settled in St. Louis back in the 90's and eventually began to buy homes in residential neighborhoods, there was a lot of fuss in the news about them smoking raw meat they had purchased in their garages or other outbuildings, because some of their neighbors apparently found the smell of the spices they used to be offensive. Meanwhile, one of my near neighbors let his dog poop in his fenced backyard every day, and never, ever picked any of it up, to the point that his next-door neighbors couldn't sit outside in their own back yards because of the smell and the flies that the massive amount of dog poop attracted. Frankly, I would rather smell spices than dog shit.
Smoking raw meat? Like, making beef jerkey?
Usually pork butt or brisket.
My pet peeve is people who don't clean up after their dogs. My psycho neighbor is one of those people.
When I lived in a courtyard apartment building many years ago, the courtyard was full of small yew bushes and grass and a central circle where we could plant flowers. The landlord did not allow pets. Then the complex was sold to new owners who allowed pets, and instantly half of my neighbors got a dog and walked it in the courtyard where the dogs peed on all the bushes and grass and killed them, and the owners left the poop everywhere. Things got so bad I couldn't even open my living room windows during nice weather because of the smell of dog poop. I complained to the landlord, who did nothing, so I bought a house and moved, and I told the landlord WHY I was moving.
This is the same complex where I came home from work one day, opened my living room windows (before the dogs became a problem), and instantly smelled a strong smell of natural gas. Called the gas company. When they arrived they evacuated the building saying there was a massive leak that could cause an explosion. Every single one of my neighbors bitched about having to go outside while the gas company fixed the problem, and when I asked them why they hadn't reported the leak, they said things like "I smelled it but I didn't want to get involved" or "I smelled it but I didn't think it was important" or "I smelled it but didn't know what it was."
Let's face it ... a significant percentage of human beings are just stupid.
Because the idea that it might actually be a goat never occurred to them.
(Yeah I've seen the video.)
Edited to add link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskBalkans/comments/1fh6xt5/american_witnesses_bosnian_lamb_roasting_for_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Are the reports of missing dogs coming from the vicinity of the South Dakota governor's mansion? Because that actually might be worth checking out.
So you end up getting these "people" saying "waaa this party won't GUARTENTEE the KILLING WILL END . . . so I'm going to vote for the party that promises EVERYONE WILL GET KILLED".
Totally logical way to vote. /s
FFS, I didn't work on mass graves in Bosnia for this shit to rear its ugly head here. Fuck fuck fuck.
Wait…isn’t Kushner trying to build a resort in that part of the world? That seems counterproductive…wait never mind their targets for this crap won’t ever travel outside the US and are not the type of patrons the Kushner/Trump crowd wants at their facilities…even if they could afford it after sending all their money to the campaign.
Albania, not Bosnia. There's a couple of countries between them.
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1835332142718497134#m
He's Truthed that he hates Taylor Swift, apparently.
I'm sure this will end well for him.
Ms. Swift isn't too terribly fond of him, either.
Ooh, kick the Beyhive next!
He was posting until 2 AM, slept for 6 hours hours tops then started right back up again with his hate for the pretty girl who dissed him.
He's manic, that's for sure. Out of his bleeping mind.
"Donald, come back to bed."
"I- what did you call me?"
"Sorry, Mr. President, come back to bed."
"Alright Lara."
"Laura."
"Lika."
"Laura! L A U R A Laura!"
"Ilanka."
She's a big, but small, subset of who he hates, judging by his abortioneering.
Lol
Vance on Meet the Press ...
"Q: Would Trump veto a national abortion ban?
Vance: I've learned my lesson on speaking for the president"
https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1835320218379260043
Yeah, ask Trump, and you still won't know anything.
"I'm sorry, Senator, but what does Biden have to do with it?"
lol
Contemporary Republicans don't learn no lessons!
No he didn't. That was an intelligible sentence.
https://wapo.st/3Xs1jKR
I hope this works. I have tinnitus and I have difficulty understanding conversation in loud environments. In crowded rooms like restaurants, the people several feet away from me are louder than the people next to me, and often I don’t understand most of the words or mishear them. But I demoed a set of top-of-the-line hearing aids five years ago, tailored to my hearing profile, and while I heard music better they did nothing for my speech comprehension in loud environments.
I just wrote a very sizeable check for a pair of AI enhanced Starkey hearing aids. I won't get them for two weeks. I'm cautiously optimistic that they'll help, but I've had hearing loss since I was a kid and got scarlet fever. Nothing can fix tinnitus short of cochlear implants, and from what I've heard they don't sound natural.
Which kind did you try?
Adam Savage ( from Mythbusters ) raves about his Widex brand, for just that sort of thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Ptuq85R8Y
The Widex pair I had were very nice and lasted 8 years. I wanted to save some money with the next set and went with Costco's Philips offering. It's got a "speech-in-noise" setting that effectively compresses most bands except the main speech bands. Not perfect but very helpful in a loud restaurant or crowd. They don't have the overall quality of sound of the Widex brand, but one can get used to any set of speakers given a known reference. Like, does a piano sound like a piano to me? If not, I get the audiologist to re-tweak the bands.
I too suffer from that malady, and so do several others here.
Let's keep one another up to date on tips and remedies.
(I tried acupuncture for a while, because I'd heard good things about with respect to Tinnitus, but it didn't seem to have any noteiceable effect.)
According to the interweb clickbait, holding an empty plastic bottle to your ear cures tinnitus.
I'm thinking JD Vance might not be the best choice for America.
He's not even the best choice for his own family.
NO!!!!!1!11
I'm thinking JD Vance might not be the best choice for refuse collection engineer.
Vance: "Hey look, a hornets' nest! I'll just poke it until the hornets come out and sting all my constituents while I sit here, protected in my glass bubble."
For decades I've waited for republican voters to realize they're actually getting fucked over. Hasn't happened yet.
new internal polls just came in for Trump ...
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1835332142718497134
If there was any doubt that she's the 2nd most powerful woman on the planet, he just cemented it.
LOLOL. Cry harder, bunker bitch.
And the man is so vain he's convinced it can't possibly hurt him.
😆🤣😆
Oh, man. The campaign staff should just cash their paychecks, and leave. There is nothing they will be able to do at this point.
That is kinda scary, seeing as how she has already had terrorist threats against her concerts.
Aaron Ruper says that's real, so I guess it's real.
A rather shockingly blunt statement.
lol. THIS is who a bunch of our neighbors want as a global leader.
another day of mental fog