Watching a clip of PAB on MSNBC and whoo boy, people 100 years from now are not going to understand how this ridiculous looking and whiny voiced man ever got into a position of power.
Her: "But Janet Yellen Bowed to that Chinese Communist! John Kerry took his private jet to the climate meeting! Joe Biden! Who's really in charge?"
Me: "Ma. If I wanted to hear that garbage spin on things, I'd watch Fox news. I don't watch Fox news. [ETA I pay 'Trix & co to watch for me!] I love you. Let's talk about art or the theater."
Hubs was telling me last night that PA had something like that, where it came outta no where and the response was just not good enough because it is worse than training prepares for,or somesuch.
Here's the latest Russo-Ukrainian War assessment. The article leads off with accounts of Russian commanders getting dismissed from their posts or arrested, and there are indications that insubordination and defeatism may be spreading.
Meanwhile, AFU methodically grinds away at their defensive lines and logistics hubs. DKos's update yesterday said one of their biggest hubs, outside of Luhansk, just went kablooey.
Sure would be a shame if the RF army collapsed into disorder just as AFU breaches the lines.
"Comparative" wealth. You've put your finger on it. The place stretches over 11 time zones, has half the population of the US, and their economy's about equal to California's (probably due to widespread corruption and inefficiency).
"Gas station masquerading as a country", to quote Sen. John McCain and ha, they wish they had an economy as big as California's, the 5th largest in the world. And now they have a much smaller army and the traffic at the gas station has gone way down.
Russia is the living example of what happens when you decide that you don't care about politics and they are all the same and I just want to go back to ignoring all this so there is less stress in my life.
I have lived with insomnia, and I am here to tell you that what stinks even more than being wide awake at 2:30 AM is sleeping all night and waking up in a bad mood EVERY FUCKING MORNING.
I'm certain there are those who believe it was handed down from Heaven by God to Jesus, who then passed it His Anointed on Earth, the Perfect Man-God known to us mere mortals as Donald Trump.
There's been another Ukrainian attack on the Kerch Bridge, this time nearly dropping one two-lane segment into the strait and damaging the neighboring bit of the span. Russia has suspended the humanitarian grain deal which had allowed Ukraine to ship out of Odesa.
Hey Bro! There was something easier about the old flow of things, but now with the subscription I will probably send a little less $$ than us used to when I felt guilty.
I honestly think that it's just taking some time for people to migrate.
People read something but think that they don't want to open up a commenting account right now b/c whatever. But as time goes on and more people find their moment to finish the sign up, we'll have more commenters and thus fewer late night gaps.
I figure it will be anything from a week to a month before things smooth out with commenting rates near but not quite at the old commenting rates.
From there, as long as Wonkette stays healthy, we should see gradual but real growth.
Remember that every website experiences turnover in commenters. When you have a big transition like this, you'll lose some, BUT the group you lose will include a disproportionate number of people who were on the verge of drifting away naturally.
Thus a month from now we'll have a smaller % of people that are near the end of their commenting run, so natural growth will occur, but natural attrition will be disrupted.
Over time we'll thus pick up more people slowly until eventually we've been on sub stack long enough that we've developed a balance again between people on the edge of drifting away and people reading the comments and on the edge of diving into the community.
Have faith! It's gonna be a rocky bit, and it will take time before we are back where we were, but Trix willing and the crick don't rise, things will reach a good state soon enough.
Watching a clip of PAB on MSNBC and whoo boy, people 100 years from now are not going to understand how this ridiculous looking and whiny voiced man ever got into a position of power.
People 100 years from now will be too busy shanking each other for a jamjar full of murky water to care about some glowing fuckyam.
You have a lovely way with words and I mean that in a good way. Very evocative.
After they find & watch a copy of "Idiocracy" it'll all make sense.
On the phone with my 85 year old ma yesterday:
Her: "But Janet Yellen Bowed to that Chinese Communist! John Kerry took his private jet to the climate meeting! Joe Biden! Who's really in charge?"
Me: "Ma. If I wanted to hear that garbage spin on things, I'd watch Fox news. I don't watch Fox news. [ETA I pay 'Trix & co to watch for me!] I love you. Let's talk about art or the theater."
My mom is on the "woke" thing though she can't define woke.
"Woke" is the ideological equivalent of "the boogie man."
"What did you see, honey?"
"I don't know, but it was scary! Waaah!"
Jonathan Lemire standing in for Joe and Mika this AM, on Morning Joe. And Joke-O-Vitch loses in Wimbledon final. A good morning.
(I know little and follow little of tennis. But I do hate. I hate asshole antivaxxers. How's your losing RNA, Joke-O?)
_Meow_!
Broke his racket in anger. Poor baby.
Ha!
Serb Beardy Guy is no match for Spanish Beardy Guy! Even Spanish King-type person is Beardy Guy!
Beardy guy you say?
https://www.cbc.ca/schittscreek/content/images/people/mutt-schitt-s2.jpg
Henlo: some very bad flooding happened in S. Korea. Please keep the people in yr hearts.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66219597
About 37 dead, and South Korea's President is saying that they need to revise their responses to weather extremes, because global warming.
Hubs was telling me last night that PA had something like that, where it came outta no where and the response was just not good enough because it is worse than training prepares for,or somesuch.
The new normal sucks donkey balls
BBC showed a few shots of Japan, where part of the country's had 300mm of rain in a few days, while Tokyo swelters.
We're headed for tropican rainforest here, soI'm set.
What's that you say about crop rot and disease and loss of indigenous ecology?
Ug, so ratfucky:
"GOP donors fuel RFK Jr's presidential campaign"
by Judd Legum
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/gop-donors-fuel-rfk-jrs-presidential
At some point in the future, I promise you, RFK will take credit for re-electing Biden.
I'm OK with him running. It's a handy distraction, and he is sucking up wingnut money like a sponge. That's money not going to any viable Republican.
I doubt he will get on the ballot, but if he does I think he'd steal more Republican votes.
That is so out of character for the Ratpublican Party.
I am curious at what point the main press goes "Hey, this guy is not actually supported by actual Democrats"
I mean....
After the election.
I believe tradition requires that to be for the book release, and too late to matter.
Prediction:
Biden wins the nom, and The Press go on and on and on about Dissatisfied Kennedy Voters switching To Republican
All twenty of them, along with all the Purity Priests who will see RFK's inevitable failure as the next hill for them to pout on.
Oh they are ON that
What was the headline the other day? Biden has a Kennedy problem?
I lol'd
Ratfuckers gotta fuck rats.
Here's the latest Russo-Ukrainian War assessment. The article leads off with accounts of Russian commanders getting dismissed from their posts or arrested, and there are indications that insubordination and defeatism may be spreading.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-16-2023
Meanwhile, AFU methodically grinds away at their defensive lines and logistics hubs. DKos's update yesterday said one of their biggest hubs, outside of Luhansk, just went kablooey.
Sure would be a shame if the RF army collapsed into disorder just as AFU breaches the lines.
Good. Fuck 'em.
Really bananas that fucking Russia, with all its resources and comparative wealth is struggling with this.
"Comparative" wealth. You've put your finger on it. The place stretches over 11 time zones, has half the population of the US, and their economy's about equal to California's (probably due to widespread corruption and inefficiency).
"Gas station masquerading as a country", to quote Sen. John McCain and ha, they wish they had an economy as big as California's, the 5th largest in the world. And now they have a much smaller army and the traffic at the gas station has gone way down.
Russia is the living example of what happens when you decide that you don't care about politics and they are all the same and I just want to go back to ignoring all this so there is less stress in my life.
I have lived with insomnia, and I am here to tell you that what stinks even more than being wide awake at 2:30 AM is sleeping all night and waking up in a bad mood EVERY FUCKING MORNING.
Morning all. ☕
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Good morning!
Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/why-ai-detectors-think-the-us-constitution-was-written-by-ai/
Artificial intelligence isn't
My NPD is far superior to AI.
At least they got one part of humanity properly emulated!
"The computer's caught a virus!"
"I warned it to practice safe fax."
Was it not?
I'm certain there are those who believe it was handed down from Heaven by God to Jesus, who then passed it His Anointed on Earth, the Perfect Man-God known to us mere mortals as Donald Trump.
(spits)
Don't forget to turn around three times counter-clockwise.
Heh.
got kicked by the widderboots
(without reading the article) Is it because they're stupid that they think the Constitution is an AI construct?
Good morning! (celebrates the Sacrament of Coffee) Worldle in one:
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There's been another Ukrainian attack on the Kerch Bridge, this time nearly dropping one two-lane segment into the strait and damaging the neighboring bit of the span. Russia has suspended the humanitarian grain deal which had allowed Ukraine to ship out of Odesa.
Slava Ukraini!
best of luck to the Russian Navy starting a firefight with the Turkish escorts.
Yeah, I don't think Russia wants to widen the conflict. The Turks might not appreciate it.
Lies! The Kerch Bridge is built like a T-55. Practically indestructible.
It *is* pretty sturdy. Ukraine should have been able to drop both the road and rail spans.
Brace for a jump in food prices.
It's a Quarter to 3 and a brisk 88 degrees outside. Can't wait to put on a suit and head to the office.
It was about 65F here this morning. Not too toasty.
It's just not cooling down here. We're headed for 106 tomorrow, evidently.
We had 95 here the other day, followed by massive thunderstorms. It's been nice since then.
This place sure seems quieter than the old place.
Surprise!
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Hey Bro! There was something easier about the old flow of things, but now with the subscription I will probably send a little less $$ than us used to when I felt guilty.
Got there eventually...
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Time for more sleeps.
I love waking up at 3am and not being able to get back to sleep. Thank goodness I don't work today
Almost slept through the night. I like to sleep till 8 AM. Up at 4:20. Damit!
Hey, have you seen Karl? I think he might have absconded with my gold and drugs during the move.
I'm not angry, just impressed that he knows where to sell the stuff.
Okay, really NYT, you are so fucked. And this woman can rant nicely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5GdtdEYq10&ab_channel=RebeccaWatson
Thanks for the link, that woman is fantastic.
I would wager the comments on that dogshit article are, as the kids say, "lit," except I think NYT really doesn't allow them.
NYT’s allows comments.
They don’t allow dick jokes in those comments.
*lame*. Well, I hope they got roasted for that garbage.
Hello, is this thing on? I suppose it's a sign for me to get off the computer and deal with my "life."
I can "hear" you. Can't see any other comments from within the last hour, though. Did everybody else go to the chat or the notes or whatever?
It's as good a theory as any. And something else for me ot get used to on the new platform.
I honestly think that it's just taking some time for people to migrate.
People read something but think that they don't want to open up a commenting account right now b/c whatever. But as time goes on and more people find their moment to finish the sign up, we'll have more commenters and thus fewer late night gaps.
I figure it will be anything from a week to a month before things smooth out with commenting rates near but not quite at the old commenting rates.
From there, as long as Wonkette stays healthy, we should see gradual but real growth.
Remember that every website experiences turnover in commenters. When you have a big transition like this, you'll lose some, BUT the group you lose will include a disproportionate number of people who were on the verge of drifting away naturally.
Thus a month from now we'll have a smaller % of people that are near the end of their commenting run, so natural growth will occur, but natural attrition will be disrupted.
Over time we'll thus pick up more people slowly until eventually we've been on sub stack long enough that we've developed a balance again between people on the edge of drifting away and people reading the comments and on the edge of diving into the community.
Have faith! It's gonna be a rocky bit, and it will take time before we are back where we were, but Trix willing and the crick don't rise, things will reach a good state soon enough.