Marcus King Solo: "Soul It Screams" (The Shangri-La Sessions)

Marcus King Solo: “Soul It Screams” (The Shangri-La Sessions)

I just need somewhere to sleep tonight, somewhere that I can feel safe
Memories only fill this house and I have nothing left that you can take
I’ll just go stay in my car, see just how far that I can go
If I close my eyes memories might seem to move by slow
I’ll just stay awake as long as I can
Only see you when I’m dreaming
There’s just one thing that my heart don’t understand
You can’t hear me when my soul it screams?
Ahh oooh
Never was an easy one for you to read ‘cause I built up these walls
I would keep it all inside and blame you every time I would fall
It all just got to be too much you had to go and focus on yourself
As for me, I’ll always be running from anyone who ever tries to help
I’ll just stay awake as long as I can
Only see you when I’m dreaming
There’s just one thing that my heart don’t understand You can’t hear me when my soul it screams? Ahh oooh

Recorded at The Shangri-La Studios owned by Rick Rubin in Los Angeles, CA

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Director: Sutton Davison
Director of Photography: Nick Leonard
1st Assistant Camera: Lance Wilson
Producer: Josh Robert
Gaffer: Cole Egilsson
Key Grip: Bevis Tran
Swing: Ryan Blond
Production: JM Collective
Audio Engineer: Gregg White
Asst. Engineer: Sofia Castellani
Management: Jason Murray & Britti Phillips for Vector Management
Editor/Colorist: Nick Leonard

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Music video by Marcus King performing Soul It Screams (Shangri-La Sessions). © 2024 Marcus King, under exclusive license to Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings Inc.

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jaunte Apr 23, 2024 • 9:50:18pm

@helenkennedy.bsky.social
Mike Luckovich on America’s new civil war

silverdolphin Apr 23, 2024 • 10:09:52pm

‘Masters Of The Air’s Callum Turner Joins Apple TV’s New Sci-Fi Series ‘Neuromancer’

Great news to hear Neuromancer is in production. Hope they do it justice.

Eclectic Cyborg Apr 23, 2024 • 10:12:59pm

No Trump trial tomorrow, right?

teleskiguy Apr 23, 2024 • 10:27:25pm

Everyone called my Dad Chuck…

Circles Around the Sun - One for Chuck - 1/14/2019 - Paste Studios - New York, NY

A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Apr 23, 2024 • 10:39:10pm

re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg

No Trump trial tomorrow, right?

Right.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 23, 2024 • 11:19:02pm

La Vie en Rose // Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Danish Radio Big Band (Live)

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Apr 23, 2024 • 11:21:21pm

Something a bit more esoteric:

Samba Clássico • Villa-Lobos • Jiang Weiqi

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Apr 24, 2024 • 2:14:11am

Where’s all my peeps?

Hallooooooo?

No Malarkey! Apr 24, 2024 • 2:29:05am

re: #8 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Where’s all my peeps?

Hallooooooo?

Good morning!

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Apr 24, 2024 • 2:51:13am

re: #9 No Malarkey!

Good morning!

G’day, mate!

dharmamark Apr 24, 2024 • 2:51:20am

re: #8 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Coffee’s brewed, dogs about to be fed…

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Apr 24, 2024 • 2:52:59am

re: #11 dharmamark

Coffee’s brewed, dogs about to be fed…

Dogs you say? Pics?

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Apr 24, 2024 • 3:01:51am

Ok. I have to go to work now. Here’s my Lily Boo Boo watching the door waiting for dad to come home. Cheers all!

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 3:17:33am

re: #2 silverdolphin

‘Masters Of The Air’s Callum Turner Joins Apple TV’s New Sci-Fi Series ‘Neuromancer’

Great news to hear Neuromancer is in production. Hope they do it justice.

Gonna be a hard one to do well.

Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 3:19:55am

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dharmamark Apr 24, 2024 • 3:20:49am

re: #11 dharmamark

Willow on the left, Dozer on the right.

Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 3:23:26am

It’s a strange day that starts off with a court case where the prosecutors are filing a brief in support of the defendant.

Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 3:23:44am

“BRIEF FOR RESPONDENT IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONER,” the cover exclaims in the state’s brief filed in Glossip v. Oklahoma today, highlighting the rarity of this sort of filing, with Drummond and Clement’s names immediately below it. www.lawdork.com/p/oklahoma-a…

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2024-04-24T03:39:04.688Z

Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 3:25:49am

Heh. Cool. It works. I now return you to your regularly scheduled quiet morning.

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 3:26:35am

re: #15 Nerdy Fish

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William Lewis Apr 24, 2024 • 3:40:06am

re: #2 silverdolphin

‘Masters Of The Air’s Callum Turner Joins Apple TV’s New Sci-Fi Series ‘Neuromancer’

Great news to hear Neuromancer is in production. Hope they do it justice.

Yeah, I don’t know. I have my doubts on this one because so much rides on tech assumptions made by Gibson - look at the opening line? How many remember what ” the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” would look like? No cell phones - there’s no way to have that famous scene of the AI calling all the payphones in a line at the airport because there are no payphones at any airports anymore… It’s all part of the look and feel, the “user interface” of the novel if you will.

Now, I loved that book and it made an insanely outsized impression on me. But it has never translated off he page well yet (the video game was an especially sick joke) and I doubt it ever will. I wish them well, but I really won’t hold my breath.

Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 3:45:04am

re: #21 William Lewis

It depends on how much you’re willing to give up in the translation from a classic old book to a new TV series. One of my favorite adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes mythos is the BBC’s production of a modern-day Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular hero, and Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson. The stories followed the same essential plot as the originals, but the innovative deductive leaps were completely reimagined to fit into modern London. Cell phones were a prominent part of the Moriarty arc, if I remember correctly. It was really good, even if it threw away all of the quaint charisma of the classical Victorian London formulation.

Dangerman Apr 24, 2024 • 3:50:43am

re: #12 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Dogs you say? Pics?

Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Apr 24, 2024 • 3:53:16am

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William Lewis Apr 24, 2024 • 3:54:05am

re: #22 Nerdy Fish

It depends on how much you’re willing to give up in the translation from a classic old book to a new TV series. One of my favorite adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes mythos is the BBC’s production of a modern-day Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular hero, and Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson. The stories followed the same essential plot as the originals, but the innovative deductive leaps were completely reimagined to fit into modern London. Cell phones were a prominent part of the Moriarty arc, if I remember correctly. It was really good, even if it threw away all of the quaint charisma of the classical Victorian London formulation.

I like that version too. But I think it’s apples and oranges.

Because, I’m not sure we’re far enough away from the days from Cyberpunk to do that yet. 50’s sf? easy-peasy to rewrite with modern or even short jump into the future tech ala black mirror. But when the book from 40 years ago was supposed to be 20 years from now and misses most of the minimums?

Be nice if we at least had the orbitals, alas…

Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 3:55:52am

re: #25 William Lewis

I like that version too. But I think it’s apples and oranges.

Because, I’m not sure we’re far enough away from the days from Cyberpunk to do that yet. 50’s sf? easy-peasy to rewrite with modern or even short jump into the future tech ala black mirror. But when the book from 40 years ago was supposed to be 20 years from now and misses most of the minimums?

Be nice if we at least had the orbitals, alas…

I see what you mean, but I still think it can be done. Part of the key is going to be not going too overboard on futurism, because 20 years isn’t that far away, and while I’m sure there’ll be another minor tech revolution before then, they should probably avoid the flash-in-a-pan tech fads like crypto or AI. That’s not going to age well.

Shropshire Slasher Apr 24, 2024 • 4:05:03am

Happy hump day! I hope this drive time music brings a smile to your face!

I Still Believe - Frank Turner - Official Video

Belafon Apr 24, 2024 • 5:07:58am

re: #14 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Gonna be a hard one to do well.

I wonder if we all just believe that rather than it being true.

Belafon Apr 24, 2024 • 5:11:15am

re: #21 William Lewis

They payphone scene is easy: as Case is walking past people in the airport, people begin answering calls. He hears his name from some of them - “No, I don’t know him” - sometimes his name being the only part of whatever language the callee was speaking that Case understood.

Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 5:12:16am

re: #25 William Lewis

Look at what Blade Runner did. The original film takes place in November 2019, or a bit less than five years ago. To say the very least, Los Angeles of five years ago looked nothing at all like it appeared in the 1982 film. So it was sorta retconned in that the events of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 both take place in an alternate timeline.

There’s a pretty good and plausible alternate timeline here: reddit.com but it misses a key event that’s spelled out in the source novel and hinted at in the original film - namely, World War III (“World War Terminus” in the novel).

Belafon Apr 24, 2024 • 5:13:51am

re: #26 Nerdy Fish

I see what you mean, but I still think it can be done. Part of the key is going to be not going too overboard on futurism, because 20 years isn’t that far away, and while I’m sure there’ll be another minor tech revolution before then, they should probably avoid the flash-in-a-pan tech fads like crypto or AI. That’s not going to age well.

It’s going to be a little hard for Neuromancer to ignore AI.

Shropshire Slasher Apr 24, 2024 • 5:15:06am

It has been a pretty slow news week, but this was hilarious (and I am sure this was discussed earlier). There are a whole group of people out there that have no business being in the kitchen. They have lived their whole lives having other people prepare their food, and this is completely alien to me.

Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba has fired back at trolls who mercilessly mocked her for chopping celery incorrectly - sharing a tongue-in-cheek video of herself hacking up an avocado while telling her critics to ‘get a life’.

The 40-year-old legal guru - who has been defending the former President in New York AG Letitia james’ fraud case against him - took a knife to her haters in the clip, in which she jokingly mocked herself for being unable to ‘cut an avocado’.

Alina’s furious response to people on the web comes after she was branded a ‘moron’ for ‘sawing’ celery in a clip that was shared by her friend on social media - before being re-posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.

I really look forward to be in court with a huge bandage on her hand…

dailymail.co.uk

A Cranky One Apr 24, 2024 • 5:18:19am

Belafon Apr 24, 2024 • 5:18:27am

Don’t get tied up in the idea that the book is 20 years in the future. It’s in the future. That’s as far as it needs to imply. Elysium did a good job of showing a disparity between above and below and implying it was a possible future.

Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 5:20:11am

re: #31 Belafon

It’s going to be a little hard for Neuromancer to ignore AI.

Okay, that’s fair (I’m not familiar with the source material, so I’ll defer to those who have read it), so maybe that’s an innovative way to introduce an alternate reality, one in which ChatGPT et al. actually do something.

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 5:20:41am

The New York Times is a right-wing newsletter, with recipes that endlessly promotes Christopher Rufo’s lies.

findinggravity.net

The Times article, by Benjamin Mullin, doesn’t get around to mentioning even a single example of criticism of NPR CEO Katherine Maher’s tweets until the fifteenth (15th) paragraph,1 when it tells readers:

Christopher Rufo, a fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, called attention to many of Ms. Maher’s posts on X and shared a response from Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, who had responded to one of Ms. Maher’s posts that Mr. Rufo highlighted, saying, “This person is a crazy racist!”

“If NPR wants to truly be National Public Radio, it can’t pander to the furthest-left elements in the United States,” Mr. Rufo said in an interview. “To do so, NPR should part ways with Katherine Maher.”

Yep, Christopher Rufo.

You saw that coming a mile away, didn’t you?

I should note at this point that the blockquote above — the Elon Musk quote Rufo solicited, and the Rufo quote the Times solicited from Rufo — constitute one hundred percent (100%) of the examples of criticism of NPR’s CEO’s tweets contained in the New York Times article headlined “NPR C.E.O. Faces Criticism Over Tweets Supporting Progressive Causes.” That’s it. Two quotes, zero paraphrases. And one of the quotes didn’t even exist before the Times began “reporting” this story; the Times itself brought the quote into existence.

This is absolute trash.

And of course the Presstitutes at the Times continue with promoting Rufo and his buddy Sleazy E.

Belafon Apr 24, 2024 • 5:36:30am

I think the biggest barrier to adoption may have been what to do with Molly’s eyes.

Belafon Apr 24, 2024 • 5:37:00am

re: #35 Nerdy Fish

Okay, that’s fair (I’m not familiar with the source material, so I’ll defer to those who have read it), so maybe that’s an innovative way to introduce an alternate reality, one in which ChatGPT et al. actually do something.

You should read the book.

Shropshire Slasher Apr 24, 2024 • 5:37:22am

Good luck with that!

Australian police arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids across Sydney on Wednesday to protect the community from a potential attack, officials said.

The seven, aged 15 to 17, were part of a network that included a 16-year-old boy accused of the stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church on April 15, police said.

Australia’s eSafety Commission, which describes itself as the world’s first government agency dedicated to keeping people safer online, applied to the court for the temporary global ban.

nypost.com

Belafon Apr 24, 2024 • 5:39:48am

re: #36 Joe Bacon ✅

This gets back to my idea that rvery Democrat need to be supporting NPR, no matter how little.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 24, 2024 • 5:40:05am

re: #38 Belafon

Speaking of AI and how you should read the book, does the whole anti-AI Butlerian Jihad ever surface in part two of Dune?

It was almost entirely absent as a relevant plot element in part one, but it is the ban on artificial Intelligence and genetic engineering that drive the key elements: the Spacing Guild’s reliance on Spice to be able to pilot starships without computers and the Bene Gesserit’s multi-generational breeding program, as well as the Mentats, the human computers/royal advisors.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 5:43:35am

re: #40 Belafon

There are a few of us R’s who like NPR/PBS as well.

Shropshire Slasher Apr 24, 2024 • 5:44:09am

Heroes walk among us.

Two heroic barbers came to the rescue last week after a child almost ran into traffic in East Hartford.

According to police, the two barbers Osvaldo Lugo and Rafael Santana of Looks Sharp Barbershop were cutting customers’ hair when they saw a child running in the street.

The child was running toward a busy intersection of cars on Main Street. The two men ran outside the store and chased after the kid, scooping him up just before he reached the intersection.

wtnh.com

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 24, 2024 • 5:47:56am

re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I’m watching part 1 now that part 2 is streaming. I didn’t want to watch part one of a two-parter, then wait years for part 2.

jeffreyw Apr 24, 2024 • 5:48:27am

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Good morning!

Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 5:48:42am

re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Speaking of AI and yo should read the book, does the whole anti-AI Butlerian Jihad ever surface in part two of Dune?

It was almost entirely absent as a relevant plot element in part one, but it is the ban on artificial Intelligence and genetic engineering that drive the key elements: the Spacing Guild’s reliance on Spice to be able to pilot starships without computers and the Ben Gesserit multi-generational breeding probram, as well as the Mentats, the human computers/royal advisors.

The Butlerian Jihad isn’t even mentioned in either film.

A Cranky One Apr 24, 2024 • 5:51:26am

Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 5:52:33am

re: #46 Dr Lizardo

The Butlerian Jihad isn’t even mentioned in either film.

Mentats aren’t really talked about either, and the Bene Gesserit grand design is only briefly alluded to. I seem to recall the Spacing Guild also does not play as prominently as it does in the book. I believe that is by design; with so many complicated elements, the movie’s adapters chose to emphasize elements that would play well on screen, rather than bringing in complex and deep backstory that would be laborious (and possibly boring) to explain in a way an uninitiated audience would understand.

Dangerman Apr 24, 2024 • 5:53:05am

Remember a short time ago Comer said to Raskin “you’ll see” about all the Biden evidence they were gonna release

Well here it is

James Comer Ready (to Give Up on Impeaching Biden)

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 24, 2024 • 5:53:20am

re: #46 Dr Lizardo

The Butlerian Jihad isn’t even mentioned in either film.

I find that odd, as it is the ban on any technology that replaces human beings is the key element that ties all the storylines together and explains how humankind has made technological progress on the one hand while our society has reverted to a mediaval structure with an Emperor and Ruling Houses.

Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 6:00:03am

re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I find that odd, as it is the ban on any technology that replaces human beings is the key element that ties all the storylines together and explains how humankind has made technological progress on the one hand while our society has reverted to a mediaval structure with an Emperor and Ruling Houses.

Yeah, it’s a bit odd, but honestly it didn’t affect the overall storytelling. Denis Villeneuve is a Dune superfan, and he probably figured that other Dune superfans would be able to explain the in-universe backstory to people not familiar with the novels.

Shropshire Slasher Apr 24, 2024 • 6:01:30am

Fukushima has been frozen in time for more than a decade since a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami, causing one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.
When the 9.0-magnitude quake struck on March 11, 2011, waves of more than 33ft (10 metres) overcame insufficient sea defences, destroying backup generators and triggering meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

It released hydrogen and radioactive materials and some 160,000 residents were evacuated from the surrounding area, many of whom have never been able to return home, abandoning their homes, businesses and belongings.

Entry to some of the zones, which continue to have relatively high radiation levels, remains strictly limited, with ‘difficult-to-return’ areas only accessible with permission.

Now, a British urban explorer has lifted the lid on the untouched world of the Japanese prefecture’s ‘red zone’ - sneaking into abandoned buildings including the nuclear control room itself, and sharing eerie pictures of what he has discovered.

dailymail.co.uk

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 24, 2024 • 6:05:29am

re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I find that odd, as it is the ban on any technology that replaces human beings is the key element that ties all the storylines together and explains how humankind has made technological progress on the one hand while our society has reverted to a mediaval structure with an Emperor and Ruling Houses.

That’s how moviemaking goes. Mercerism was pretty important in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but Blade Runner works fine without it.

Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 6:07:59am

re: #53 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

That’s how moviemaking goes. Mercerism was pretty important in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but Blade Runner works fine without it.

The whole Mercerism thing is completely absent from Blade Runner. Not even a hint of it to be found anywhere in the film. In retrospect, a good decision to drop it entirely, though it’s entirely fair to say that Blade Runner is a very loose adaptation of the source novel.

Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 6:08:28am

re: #52 Shropshire Slasher

dailymail.co.uk

Pripyat looks down its nose and chuckles.

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 6:14:03am

re: #54 Dr Lizardo

The whole Mercerism thing is completely absent from Blade Runner. Not even a hint of it to be found anywhere in the film. In retrospect, a good decision to drop it entirely, though it’s entirely fair to say that Blade Runner is a very loose adaptation of the source novel.

And an infinitely better one than the travesty that is I, Robot .

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 24, 2024 • 6:14:26am

re: #53 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Again, it is a very simple point to mention: There is a ban on all technology that replaces humans. The rest falls into place from that.

Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 6:16:55am

I have to agree that there is so much of the bedrock of Neuromancer and the Sprawl Trilogy as a whole that is firmly rooted in that early-to-mid 80s view of what the world was going to look like 20 years on that the only real option for adaptation today would be to slap some variation of an “alternate history” tag on it and advise the audience not to think too deeply about the wild differences between the adaptation’s story and real life events.

You could almost lump it and a lot of the speculative fiction from that period into a new genre: “Nostalgic fiction.” A genre defined by works that were so blindsided by the end of the Cold War and the rapid advance of technology that they’re now wildly anachronistic and only work in a world where the events of the 80s just carried forward unimpeded.

Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 6:17:38am

re: #56 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

And an infinitely better one than the travesty that is I, Robot .

I don’t know what the hell the screenplay writers were thinking on that one.

Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 6:19:45am

re: #58 Targetpractice

Yeah, I say go with a Blade Runner type retcon.

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Apr 24, 2024 • 6:21:36am

re: #59 Dr Lizardo

I don’t know what the hell the screenplay writers were thinking on that one.

I think it started with “We have to make the female lead a lot younger and attractive” and snowballed from there; e.g. they had a very loose outline of the plot and none of the details about the characters or what the short stories were actually about.

Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 6:22:50am

re: #59 Dr Lizardo

I don’t know what the hell the screenplay writers were thinking on that one.

That studios aren’t willing to shell out serious money for hard scifi films, that the big blockbusters are action films that audiences turn their brains off to coo at, and so the only real way to sell scifi is as action films that only kindly suggest the audience pay attention long enough for an info dump between fight scenes.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 24, 2024 • 6:24:50am

re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Again, it is a very simple point to mention: There is a ban on all technology that replaces humans. The rest falls into place from that.

Is there no explanation at all for the AI ban in the movies?
It’s pretty weird that the AI boom happened in the real world between the releases of parts 1 and 2.

Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 6:26:00am

re: #62 Targetpractice

That studios aren’t willing to shell out serious money for hard scifi films, that the big blockbusters are action films that audiences turn their brains off to coo at, and so the only real way to sell scifi is as action films that only kindly suggest the audience pay attention long enough for an info dump between fight scenes.

Well, Denis Villeneuve’s next project is supposed to be Rendezvous with Rama, which is pretty cerebral sci-fi. Not too many ways to turn that one into a CGI action spectacular along the lines of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 6:31:23am

re: #64 Dr Lizardo

Well, Denis Villeneuve’s next project is supposed to be Rendezvous with Rama, which is pretty cerebral sci-fi. Not too many ways to turn that one into a CGI action spectacular along the lines of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

Yeah, color me skeptical. A lot of hard scifi adaptations have ended up as either popcorn flicks or been consigned to indefinite internment in Development Hell. The few that have avoided those fates have ended up doing middling to poorly in theaters as they either get dumped during slow periods or put up against blockbuster franchises to wither on the vine.

The days of films like 2001 doing major bank are long gone.

jeffreyw Apr 24, 2024 • 6:31:48am

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 24, 2024 • 6:32:04am

re: #64 Dr Lizardo

Well, Denis Villeneuve’s next project is supposed to be Rendezvous with Rama, which is pretty cerebral sci-fi. Not too many ways to turn that one into a CGI action spectacular along the lines of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

They could make a film about attractive young people battling biots.

Shropshire Slasher Apr 24, 2024 • 6:36:16am

re: #67 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

They could make a film about attractive young people battling biots.

I am torn, bots or bigots? Or bigoted bots?

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Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 6:37:20am

re: #65 Targetpractice

Yeah, color me skeptical. A lot of hard scifi adaptations have ended up as either popcorn flicks or been consigned to indefinite internment in Development Hell. The few that have avoided those fates have ended up doing middling to poorly in theaters as they either get dumped during slow periods or put up against blockbuster franchises to wither on the vine.

The days of films like 2001 doing major bank are long gone.

Early sci-fi had the advantage of novelty; CGI graphics were cutting-edge tech. Think about the original Star Wars and its futuristic laser effects, lightsabers, etc. Nowadays, every sci-fi franchise has (more or less) incredible effects, by those standards, and so they rely on other means to hook viewers in. But only hardcore nerds would watch a sci-fi series for its plot; most ordinary moviegoers want to see a spectacle, and when they think sci-fi, they think lasers and spaceships. So there isn’t a lot of draw there anymore.

Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 6:37:24am

re: #65 Targetpractice

Sort of reminds me of the story Guillermo del Toro had about his film adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness.

He had a screenplay that adhered very closely to the novella, storyboards, everything. He was ready to go. So during the pitch, one young studio exec asked, “Where’s the titties? We gotta have titties!” meaning, where’s the love/romantic interest for the protagonist (and presumably, a shoggoth would be a rather poor substitute for said love interest).

When Guillermo explained there were no “titties” in the original short story…that sorta ended the whole project.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 24, 2024 • 6:37:45am

re: #68 Shropshire Slasher

I am torn, bots or bigots? Or bigoted bots?

Biots.

Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 6:38:55am

re: #49 Dangerman

Remember a short time ago Comer said to Raskin “you’ll see” about all the Biden evidence they were gonna release

Well here it is

James Comer Ready (to Give Up on Impeaching Biden)

The GQP went down this particular rabbit hole because their base spent years being told by the far-right media that it was a ready-made “scandal,” that all they had to do was kick over a few rocks and there would be the evidence necessary to put the entire Biden clan behind bars and rocket Trump to the WH for life. Instead, they found out that most of the “leads” were Russian fabrications or wildly out of sync with the reality that could be found out with a basic Google search. The conga line of witnesses they expected to give them incriminating testimony never materialized, Hunter didn’t collapse into a puddle of piss and beg to incriminate his dad in exchange for a plea deal, and the media they thought would help them get this lame horse over the line has now turned on them and started blaming them for the effort’s failure.

In any sane party, this would be an instructional lesson on why you don’t trust the people who stand to lose nothing to give you instructions, but will instead be incorporated into the ever-growing myth of the “Deep State” that forever prevents the rise of the MAGAt Thousand Year Reich.

William Lewis Apr 24, 2024 • 6:43:52am

re: #35 Nerdy Fish

Okay, that’s fair (I’m not familiar with the source material, so I’ll defer to those who have read it), so maybe that’s an innovative way to introduce an alternate reality, one in which ChatGPT et al. actually do something.

OH… the whole schtick is if sentient AI is possible.

Spoiler for a 40 year old novel:

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Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 6:47:52am

re: #74 William Lewis

At the end of Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell, Motoko Kusanagi merges with Project 2501/Puppet Master to become a new lifeform - a hybrid of human intellect and sentient AI.

gocart mozart Apr 24, 2024 • 6:49:27am

Candace Owens definitely isn’t antisemitic y’all, having an unprompted obsessive spiral with uncovering the hidden truth of German victimhood after WW2 is a totally normal non-antisemitic way to spend one’s Friday morning pic.twitter.com/eeqomgTf4F

— Ben Lorber (@BenLorber8) April 20, 2024

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 24, 2024 • 6:49:30am

re: #69 gocart mozart

Burnin’ hot take there, Candace…

PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 6:51:06am

re: #76 gocart mozart

That sounds like revisionist history to me.

Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 6:51:26am

re: #71 Dr Lizardo

Sort of reminds me of the story Guillermo del Toro had about his film adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness.

He had a screenplay that adhered very closely to the novella, storyboards, everything. He was ready to go. So during the pitch, one young studio exec asked, “Where’s the titties? We gotta have titties!” meaning, where’s the love/romantic interest for the protagonist (and presumably, a shoggoth would be a rather poor substitute for said love interest).

When Guillermo explained there were no “titties” in the original short story…that sorta ended the whole project.

Yeah, that was an example I thought of bringing up, del Toro’s failed efforts to get one of Lovecraft’s major works adapted into a big-budget film. It’s not that Lovecraft’s works have never been adapted, it’s just that most have either been low-budget works that never get major release or have been saddled with action plots that have nothing to do with the original material just to get a Hollywood exec to sign on to the project.

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 6:51:49am

re: #76 gocart mozart

If KKKandace had lived in Nazi Germany she would have met a sad fate.

sizzzzlerz Apr 24, 2024 • 6:52:14am

Today’s physics lesson:

Eventual Carrion Apr 24, 2024 • 6:55:21am

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Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 6:55:27am

re: #79 Targetpractice

If there’s one Lovecraft adaptation the inner screenwriter/director in me would love to do, it’s The Shadow over Innsmouth. The screenplay would stick to the original story, and I’d do it as a period piece, set in the late 1920s or early ’30s.

The 2001 film Dagon was an adaptation of “The Shadow over Innsmouth”, but it veered pretty wildly from the source material.

Backwoods Sleuth Apr 24, 2024 • 7:01:43am

heh

Mastodon

Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 7:07:59am

re: #76 gocart mozart

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Formerly occupied countries treating the occupiers who exploited, raped, tortured, and executed their countrymen like absolute shit comes as a surprise to Canned Ass? Or is she one of those Nazi apologists who still buys Reich propaganda about how the annexed territories welcomed their “German brothers” and Eastern Europe welcomed them as “liberators” from Stalin’s tyranny?

PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 7:09:01am

re: #84 Backwoods Sleuth

Your own party is dragging you down. It is rotten to the core.

darthstar Apr 24, 2024 • 7:09:01am

Looks like Trump beat Haley in a landslide last night - 83-17…granted, she did drop out two months ago so losing nearly 1 in 5 votes in the primary probably isn’t indicative of what will happen in the general.

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Apr 24, 2024 • 7:09:16am

re: #64 Dr Lizardo

Well, Denis Villeneuve’s next project is supposed to be Rendezvous with Rama, which is pretty cerebral sci-fi. Not too many ways to turn that one into a CGI action spectacular along the lines of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

I could foresee a number of ways to do that within the general plot of the book. Mainly involves massively compressing the early parts of the novel and probably kicking off the movie with the humans entering Rama with little time spent on exposition on why the craft and is, how the humans spotted it, and how they got to it.

That allows the movie to spend most of it’s time on or in Rama and the humans interacting with various bits of it. Which can be tweaked as needed to provide lots of action and/or blowing things up.

Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 7:12:24am

re: #88 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Yeah, but this is Denis Villeneuve writing the adaptation and directing. Given his track record, it’s fair to say that he’d stick pretty damn close to the novel.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 24, 2024 • 7:12:40am

re: #85 Targetpractice

Formerly occupied countries treating the occupiers who exploited, raped, tortured, and executed their countrymen like absolute shit comes as a surprise to Canned Ass? Or is she one of those Nazi apologists who still buys Reich propaganda about how the annexed territories welcomed their “German brothers” and Eastern Europe welcomed them as “liberators” from Stalin’s tyranny?

From what I’ve read/heard/seen on her, she believes that Hitler had a lot of good ideas, but when wrong when attacking other nations.

Eventual Carrion Apr 24, 2024 • 7:12:53am

re: #40 Belafon

This gets back to my idea that rvery Democrat need to be supporting NPR, no matter how little.

I’m a sustaining member.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 24, 2024 • 7:12:54am

re: #85 Targetpractice

“Hitler was terribly misunderstood…”

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Apr 24, 2024 • 7:13:52am

re: #84 Backwoods Sleuth

heh

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Yap Yap.

I would bet money that if there was a vote within the GOP that would effectively shut her up he’d vote against it since the GOP’s words and actions are never required to agree.

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 7:14:34am

Kanye West is eyeing a new and decidedly not-safe-for-work business venture: a pornography studio. A rep for the embattled artist told TMZ that he’s in “advanced talks” to set up the project as part of his Yeezy conglomerate—making the new studio an anchor for a larger adult entertainment division. He’s even approached Stormy Daniels’ ex-husband Mike Moz to head the venture, according to the tabloid. It could launch as soon as this summer. The turn toward porn isn’t exactly surprising—the rapper has a history of hypersexualized lyrics and music videos, including a controversial music video for his song “Famous,” which featured nude celebrity lookalikes resembling Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Anna Wintour, Bill Cosby and others. He’s also been criticized for recent public appearances with his increasingly scantily clad partner, Bianca Censori—with many speculating that he’s pressured her to dress in such a provocative fashion.

tmz.com

Hecuba's daughter Apr 24, 2024 • 7:17:00am

re: #15 Nerdy Fish

Beagle for the puppers.

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Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 7:17:35am

re: #84 Backwoods Sleuth

heh

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Yeah, that’s great, Thom. Now, can we hear your thoughts on your party’s quad-indicted, twice-impeached, rapist fraudster of a presidential candidate?

Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 7:28:32am

re: #90 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

From what I’ve read/heard/seen on her, she believes that Hitler had a lot of good ideas, but when wrong when attacking other nations.

I.e., the Nazi apologist line about how WWII was a “mistake” or Germany acting in its “defense” and not the end-goal of Hitler’s rebuilding of the nation on a mountain of debt and foreign loans that he was never going to be able to pay back.

darthstar Apr 24, 2024 • 7:30:28am

re: #91 Eventual Carrion

I’m a sustaining member.

I thought we were done talking about Pecker yesterday.

Randall Gross Apr 24, 2024 • 7:33:49am

Good morning all, hope today finds that you & yours are happy, hale, and hearty.

This is a gift link to wapo below

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: I loved “The Albatross”!!!
Edgar Allan Poe: I kept waiting for other birds. Not enough birds in this album I would say
And no bells, tintinnabulating or otherwise
Lord Byron: it’s a Jack Antonoff production you’re not going to have tintinnabulating bells wapo.st/3W8MCNG[image or embed]— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes.bsky.social) Apr 22, 2024 at 10:49 PM

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jeffreyw Apr 24, 2024 • 7:40:34am

YouTube

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Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 7:44:57am

If you’ve ever wondered how Putin stays in power, here’s a good example:

Startup in Russian: the mother of a Russian soldier killed in the war in Ukraine spent the bereavement payments on the purchase of an apartment, but there was not enough to repair the old house in the village, so she sent her second son to the war, too.

Zhanna Polupanova is the… pic.twitter.com/TP9PF9Ygsa

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) April 23, 2024

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 24, 2024 • 7:46:11am

re: #101 Targetpractice

If you’ve ever wondered how Putin stays in power, here’s a good example:

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She’s just following her dreams.

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nines09 Apr 24, 2024 • 7:49:34am

re: #101 Targetpractice

GOP Fever Dream

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Apr 24, 2024 • 7:49:47am

Partridge. No pear tree.

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sizzzzlerz Apr 24, 2024 • 8:00:20am

re: #84 Backwoods Sleuth

heh

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Dragging your brand down? She’s mice nuts to the damage being inflicted by the orange shitgibbon.

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sizzzzlerz Apr 24, 2024 • 8:03:59am

re: #88 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I could foresee a number of ways to do that within the general plot of the book. Mainly involves massively compressing the early parts of the novel and probably kicking off the movie with the humans entering Rama with little time spent on exposition on why the craft and is, how the humans spotted it, and how they got to it.

That allows the movie to spend most of it’s time on or in Rama and the humans interacting with various bits of it. Which can be tweaked as needed to provide lots of action and/or blowing things up.

Which means the movie massively deviates from the book because, in the book, nothing actually happens, just the characters wandering around a massive alien ship.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Apr 24, 2024 • 8:04:16am

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 24, 2024 • 8:05:26am

re: #56 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

And an infinitely better one than the travesty that is I, Robot .

As a Will Smith sci-fi film, I, Robot is not bad.

As a legitimate adaptation of Asimovs work, it’s a fucking joke.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Apr 24, 2024 • 8:09:44am

Russia detains deputy of defense minister Sergei Shoigu for corruption

Russian security services detained one of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s deputies on suspicion of taking major bribes, the highest-profile corruption case since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.

Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was detained on Tuesday, according to a brief 22-word statement by Russia’s investigative committee.

Ivanov, who has served as deputy minister since 2016, was in charge of property management, housing, construction and mortgages at the defense ministry.

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A Cranky One Apr 24, 2024 • 8:15:37am

I just re-watched the video of Robert Fripp performing Heroes with Daryl Hall.

Fripp’s playing is a prime example of how to be tasty, add to the song and not be flashy.

His extremely bare bones guitar line makes the song in my opinion. I’ll note that various covers/versions of the song leave out his melodic counterpoint and suffer for the loss.

In this world of guitarists whose claim to fame is their ability to shred and play very fast, it’s a nice reminder that it isn’t how many notes you play that is important.

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Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 8:17:03am

re: #107 sizzzzlerz

Which means the movie massively deviates from the book because, in the book, nothing actually happens, just the characters wandering around a massive alien ship.

I remember years and years ago reading in Cracked Magazine a blurb regarding David Fincher’s attempt to make Rendezvous with Rama and how it ended up in development hell.

The (satirical) theory suggested by the author was that (and I’m paraphrasing here) no one at any studio’s marketing department could quite figure out to sell merch based on the film. After all, it’s going to be pretty hard to get kids excited about their 10-foot long Rama playset, where all they’ll be doing is some existential contemplation on the meaning of Rama as well as man’s place in the universe.

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A Cranky One Apr 24, 2024 • 8:17:12am

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Hecuba's daughter Apr 24, 2024 • 8:20:24am

re: #32 Shropshire Slasher

It has been a pretty slow news week, but this was hilarious (and I am sure this was discussed earlier). There are a whole group of people out there that have no business being in the kitchen. They have lived their whole lives having other people prepare their food, and this is completely alien to me.

I really look forward to be in court with a huge bandage on her hand…

dailymail.co.uk

An avocado hand in her future?

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Apr 24, 2024 • 8:21:17am

Charles Manson?

This is interesting, especially if you’re of the Christian Faith

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Apr 24, 2024 • 8:23:14am

re: #78 PhillyPretzel ✅

That sounds like revisionist history to me.

Well… during the Third Reich’s years in ascendence, quite a few Germans moved into the occupied territories — and were expelled, sometimes with extreme prejudice, when their territories were liberated. The locals would be unlikely to make exceptions for ethnic Germans who had been there all along.

Also, in the areas the Red Army occupied, soldiers raped everything female they could find, and may not have stopped with that. (To reply to her earlier remark, anyone who was in Dresden during the firestorm was at risk and casualties were massive. That it was a war crime appears to be the majority opinion. Read Slaughterhouse Five.)

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Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 8:23:28am

re: #115 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

That’s a good example of pareidolia.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 8:24:42am

re: #115 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Charles Manson?

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Damn! I squint and see…Ron Jeremy?????? 😵‍💫

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Dangerman Apr 24, 2024 • 8:24:55am

re: #117 Dr Lizardo

That’s a good example of pareidolia.

that’s what it looks like //

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 24, 2024 • 8:25:18am

Mastodon

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darthstar Apr 24, 2024 • 8:26:19am

Cough is finally getting better… wife asked me to test anyway and no, I’m not pregnant

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Shropshire Slasher Apr 24, 2024 • 8:26:30am

re: #115 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Charles Manson?

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wow! that’s a bingo!

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 8:26:35am

re: #115 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

There is something odd about that photo. Look carefully at the coffee cup that is closest to the girl in blue.

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Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 8:27:28am

re: #120 Backwoods Sleuth

If Russia attacks a NATO ally “we would have no choice but to come to their aid,” says Biden at the White House.

Yeah. No shit. If Putin tries something with the Baltic states or the Suwałki Gap, he’s gonna find out what FAFO means real quick.

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No Malarkey! Apr 24, 2024 • 8:27:47am

Kim Davis is finding out.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 24, 2024 • 8:28:04am

re: #115 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Kris Kristopherson.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 24, 2024 • 8:29:53am

re: #123 PhillyPretzel ✅

There is something odd about that photo. Look carefully at the coffee cup that is closest to the girl in blue.

Look at the car in the background. Posing to get the effect would be very difficult. Photoshop is easy.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 8:30:52am

re: #127 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Yes. That too.

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Dangerman Apr 24, 2024 • 8:31:08am

re: #76 gocart mozart

Candace is a loon

i focused in on this tidbit:

“Well over 2m women and children were raped at the end of the war
Many of them died or killed themselves as a result”

this is specific and causative - i wonder why she thinks however many of them killed themselves “as a result”

And then I wonder why she thinks it’s imperative that a raped American woman in the year 2024 must give birth if pregnancy occurs

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Apr 24, 2024 • 8:31:52am

re: #123 PhillyPretzel ✅

There is something odd about that photo. Look carefully at the coffee cup that is closest to the girl in blue.

The car in the background does not seem altogether roadworthy either.

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Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 8:32:21am

re: #127 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Look at the car in the background. Posing to get the effect would be very difficult. Photoshop is easy.

It’s probably photoshopped.

But one of the best - and most famous - examples of pareidolia is the so-called Face on Mars in the Cydonia region.

That bit of pareidolia launched a thousand conspiracy theories. Even inspired an X Files episode, too.

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 24, 2024 • 8:36:06am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 24, 2024 • 8:36:22am

re: #113 A Cranky One

Spelling gives it away. “I’m pergrant! Call me assap!”

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b.d. Apr 24, 2024 • 8:38:09am

re: #115 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Charles Manson?

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Jay C Apr 24, 2024 • 8:39:34am

re: #134 b.d.

Is that one of Elon’s new RoboTaxis in the background?

Well, it doesn’t look particularly workable/roadworthy, so yeah: probably…

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 24, 2024 • 8:39:51am

re: #131 Dr Lizardo

I thought it was kind of cool, but I understood from the get that sometimes natural formations can take on the shape of familiar things.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 24, 2024 • 8:41:26am

re: #136 Eclectic Cyborg

I thought it was kind of cool, but I understood from the get that sometimes natural formations can take on the shape of familiar things.

French Lick, Indiana

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Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 8:41:57am

This argument gives away the game. Alito wants to be able to treat fetuses as literally separate people, turning women into mere incubators for white American Christian babies.

Prelogar notes that EMTALA doesn’t force a pregnant patient to accept abortion care, merely that the option has to be available.

Alito effectively arguing that somehow medical treatment should be administered to fetuses without involving the pregnant person.

— Andrea Grimes (@andreagrimes.bsky.social) 2024-04-24T15:39:47.586Z

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Apr 24, 2024 • 8:45:55am

Palace of the Soviets, aka “Comrade Lenin Hailing a Taxi.”

Monumental Buildings.

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danarchy Apr 24, 2024 • 8:46:42am

re: #136 Eclectic Cyborg

I thought it was kind of cool, but I understood from the get that sometimes natural formations can take on the shape of familiar things.

New Hmpshire’s old man in the mountain, which is sadly no longer with us, but is immortalized on a whole mess of quarters.

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 24, 2024 • 8:48:45am

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 24, 2024 • 8:49:52am

re: #141 Backwoods Sleuth

170 million??

HALF the country is using TikTok?

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 24, 2024 • 8:51:04am

re: #141 Backwoods Sleuth

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Selling the platform would not devastate any business, or silence anyone.
I do think they have a pretty good chance in court.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 8:54:21am

re: #125 No Malarkey!

Kim Davis is finding out.

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Yeah but there are enough suckers that will pony up at GiveSendGo to cover that for their “sister in Christ”

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b.d. Apr 24, 2024 • 8:55:39am

re: #141 Backwoods Sleuth

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We will all be much safer when Steve Mnuchin owns Tik-Tok, rather than some untrustworthy entity that doesn’t have our best interest at heart.

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 24, 2024 • 8:56:11am

Maybe in hindsight, trying to impeach a president with evidence from Rudy, Tony Bobulinski, and this guy wasn’t the smartest plan. pic.twitter.com/s4TywUOmvV

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 24, 2024

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 24, 2024 • 8:57:58am

Mastodon

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Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 8:58:14am

re: #145 b.d.

We will all be much safer when Steve Mnuchin owns Tik-Tok, rather than some untrustworthy entity that doesn’t have our ~~best~~ financial interest at heart.

//

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Dangerman Apr 24, 2024 • 8:58:49am

re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Spelling gives it away. “I’m pergrant! Call me assap!”

i read it
didnt get it

now i do

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 24, 2024 • 8:59:57am

Mastodon

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Dangerman Apr 24, 2024 • 9:02:04am

re: #141 Backwoods Sleuth

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1. not a ban
2. no interruption in service is necessary
3. move your servers to the US and follow US law (as any buyer would be forced to do)

not so hard

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The Ghost of a Flea Apr 24, 2024 • 9:02:12am

re: #145 b.d.

We will all be much safer when Steve Mnuchin owns Tik-Tok, rather than some untrustworthy entity that doesn’t have our best interest at heart.

//

The important part is that an American middleman garner profit off scraping user data.

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Teukka Apr 24, 2024 • 9:02:20am

2 fer one speshul:

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William Lewis Apr 24, 2024 • 9:02:35am

re: #142 Eclectic Cyborg

170 million??

HALF the country is using TikTok?

came preinstalled on Android 13 with my new Razr so that’s probably how they can claim that number. Still, makes it easier for them to scream about it in court.

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Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 9:03:06am

re: #138 Nerdy Fish

This argument gives away the game. Alito wants to be able to treat fetuses as literally separate people, turning women into mere incubators for white American Christian babies.

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The same people would argue (without a hint of irony) that hospitals turning away pregnant women about to pop for failure to show proof of citizenship/immigration status should also be perfectly legal because “anchor babies.”

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Dangerman Apr 24, 2024 • 9:05:20am

re: #147 Backwoods Sleuth

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this part is not hypocrisy

Biden campaign plans to keep using TikTok through the election | Does leave one wondering just how sincere Congress & the President have been about TikTok as a danger to all Americans.

the campaign is not going to put anything on the app that could be dangerous or compromising etc

this is not the kind of activity the law is concerned about

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 9:06:08am

re: #123 PhillyPretzel ✅

There is something odd about that photo. Look carefully at the coffee cup that is closest to the girl in blue.

Look at the car - something elmo may have designed.

ETA - came late to the car party; their hands are all wrong, too.

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Dangerman Apr 24, 2024 • 9:08:15am

re: #155 Targetpractice

The same people would argue (without a hint of irony) that hospitals turning away pregnant women about to pop for failure to show proof of citizenship/immigration status should also be perfectly legal because “anchor babies.”

right, cause it won’t be an “anchor baby” if she gives birth in the parking lot //

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 9:12:25am

re: #153 Teukka

He is dead? Are you sure?

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Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 9:12:47am

re: #159 PhillyPretzel ✅

He is dead? Are you sure?

It’s a joke. It’s to highlight his hypocritical stance on misinformation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 24, 2024 • 9:13:20am

re: #159 PhillyPretzel ✅

He is dead? Are you sure?

Muder-Suicide pact with Mark Zuckerberg.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 9:14:06am

re: #160 Nerdy Fish

Yes. You are right. Pity.

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Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 9:14:08am

re: #159 PhillyPretzel ✅

It’s from a satire website out of Australia.

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Decatur Deb Apr 24, 2024 • 9:15:07am

re: #158 Dangerman

right, cause it won’t be an “anchor baby” if she gives birth in the parking lot //

Won’t be an anchor baby if they both die.

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Teukka Apr 24, 2024 • 9:16:37am

As a service to the public, I want to warn about this new designer drug.
Extremely addictive, one small hit and you’re hooked…

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Dangerman Apr 24, 2024 • 9:18:09am

re: #164 Decatur Deb

Won’t be an anchor baby if they both die.

yeah…
i was counting on a positive outcome.

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Decatur Deb Apr 24, 2024 • 9:19:50am

re: #166 Dangerman

yeah…
i was counting on a positive outcome.

“Positive” varies by ideology.

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Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 9:20:25am

And the oral arguments in the EMTALA case are all wrapped up. It seems Idaho really leaned into the “religious freedom,” “that’s illegal here,” and “allowing EMTALA to stand would cause nationwide chaos” as their arguments. On top of Alito and Thomas, who were going to vote for this shitshow regardless, that buys them Barrett and probably Gorsuch. I could actually see this potentially going 5-4 against the state; on the other hand, it could just as easily go 6-3 for the state, so we’re really going to have fun with this one. I’d anticipate Alito doing another Dobbs to ensure he gets his way.

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Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 9:20:28am

ABC finding out about the fine print on the Faustian deal she made to sit on the SCOTUS bench:

‘I’m kind of shocked’: Amy Coney Barrett backs up Sonia Sotomayor in abortion case

“That’s a lot for the doctor to risk,” Sotomayor noted. “When Idaho law changed to make the issue whether she’s going to die or not, or whether she’s going to have a serious medical condition, there’s a big daylight by your standards, correct?”

“It is very case-by-case,” Turner insisted.

“That’s the problem,” Sotomayor pushed back before Barrett weighed in.

“I’m kind of shocked, actually,” the conservative justice reacted, “because I thought your own expert had said below that these kinds of cases were covered, and you’re now saying they’re not?”

“No, I’m not saying that,” Turner responded.

“Well, you’re hedging,” Barrett observed. “I mean, Justice Sotomayor is asking you, would this be covered or not? And it was my understanding that the legislature’s witnesses said that these would be covered.”

“Yeah, and those doctors said if they were exercising their medical judgment, they could, in good faith, determine that life-saving care was necessary,” Turner explained.

“But some doctors — couldn’t doctors might reach a contrary conclusion, I think is what Sotomayor is asking you,” Barrett pointed out.

Judge Lydia finally realizing that all that “exceptions” talk was always bunk, that so long as the power to decide what is “medically necessary” rests with the state and their paid stooges, doctors can’t be sure that saving a woman’s life or fertility won’t lead to a jail term or worse.

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wrenchwench Apr 24, 2024 • 9:21:03am

re: #166 Dangerman

yeah…
i was counting on a positive outcome.

I look forward to pregnant Texans moving to Mexico for safety. I think they have a lower maternal mortality rate.

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Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 9:29:12am

re: #169 Targetpractice

ABC finding out about the fine print on the Faustian deal she made to sit on the SCOTUS bench:

‘I’m kind of shocked’: Amy Coney Barrett backs up Sonia Sotomayor in abortion case

Judge Lydia finally realizing that all that “exceptions” talk was always bunk, that so long as the power to decide what is “medically necessary” rests with the state and their paid stooges, doctors can’t be sure that saving a woman’s life or fertility won’t lead to a jail term or worse.

No doubt having been personally confronted with the real-life consequences of her religious dogma. It sounds so good, so righteous, on paper, to say you are against the murder of unborn children, until someone smacks you upside the head with the clue-by-four of the brutal reality of human existence.

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BeenHereAwhile Apr 24, 2024 • 9:32:52am

re: #116 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Well… during the Third Reich’s years in ascendence, quite a few Germans moved into the occupied territories — and were expelled, sometimes with extreme prejudice, when their territories were liberated. The locals would be unlikely to make exceptions for ethnic Germans who had been there all along.

Also, in the areas the Red Army occupied, soldiers raped everything female they could find, and may not have stopped with that. (To reply to her earlier remark, anyone who was in Dresden during the firestorm was at risk and casualties were massive. That it was a war crime appears to be the majority opinion. Read Slaughterhouse Five.)

Bomber Harris, “you bombed London” we bomb Würzburg (75 percent destroyed), followed by Dessau, Kassel, Mainz, and Hamburg. Over 70 percent of the largest cities had their urban core destroyed. Worst cases: Dresden, Cologne, Essen, Dortmund, Hanover, Nuremberg, & Chemnitz.

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danarchy Apr 24, 2024 • 9:33:32am

re: #156 Dangerman

this part is not hypocrisy

the campaign is not going to put anything on the app that could be dangerous or compromising etc

this is not the kind of activity the law is concerned about

The concern is not about what you put on the app, or even what inane content the app algorithm is feeding to kids. It is about what information the app is collecting that you don’t know about or has the potential to collect even if it isn’t currently. The amount of access people grant random apps on their phones is terrifying(myself included). ByteDance is little more than an extension of the Chinese government. If the wrong person puts tiktok on the wrong phone and it grants access to image libraries, email content, contacts and whatever else the app requests on install it could absolutely be a national security issue.

I don’t remember seeing the kind of backlash when they indicated that they were going to ban Kaspersky Antivirus because Russia.

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Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 9:41:14am

re: #171 Nerdy Fish

No doubt having been personally confronted with the real-life consequences of her religious dogma. It sounds so good, so righteous, on paper, to say you are against the murder of unborn children, until someone smacks you upside the head with the clue-by-four of the brutal reality of human existence.

It’s that unpalatable reality that you can be a “Good Christian” and still think that inflicting lifelong pain and suffering on another human being is cool with “God” so long as you forced her to endure all of it in the vain hope that the “baby” could be saved. That not only is a doctor in Idaho forbidden from taking action until a woman is damn near dead, but he can still face jail time if another doctor on the state’s payroll looks at the patient’s charts and concludes that they were not close enough to death to meet the unnecessarily high bar set by state bureaucrats.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 24, 2024 • 9:42:22am

Secret Service prepares for if Trump is jailed for contempt in hush money case
The U.S. Secret Service held meetings and started planning for what to do if former President Donald Trump were to be held in contempt in his criminal hush money trial and Judge Juan Merchan opted to send him to short-term confinement, officials familiar with the situation told ABC News.

Merchan on Tuesday reserved decision on the matter after a contentious hearing. Prosecutors said at this point they are seeking a fine.

“We are not yet seeking an incarceratory penalty,” assistant district attorney Chris Conroy said, “But the defendant seems to be angling for that.”

Officials do not necessarily believe Merchan would put Trump in a holding cell in the courthouse but they are planning for contingencies, the officials said.

There have not been discussions yet about what to do if Trump is convicted and sentenced to prison.

The former president is on trial on felony charges of falsifying business records to hide the reimbursement of a hush money payment his then-attorney Michael Cohen made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

abcnews.go.com

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Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 9:43:50am

re: #174 Targetpractice

Tangential to the religious aspect of your post, with which I agree wholeheartedly (as you know), but you just know the doctors the state will get on their payroll to review these decisions will “coincidentally” all agree that abortion is never a life-saving treatment, and that women who present with life-threatening complications to their pregnancies should just be left to die. And they don’t have to actually convict a doctor under the statute to achieve the intended effect; just bringing a court case, dragging it out as long as possible, and making an example out of them will do.

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goddamnedfrank Apr 24, 2024 • 9:46:27am

It’s entirely up to y’all, but if were me that had uncritically spread lies that directly resulted in creating the conditions for a famine, I’d probably spend some time reflecting on that.

Germany said on Wednesday that it would resume funding for the main U.N. agency aiding Palestinians in Gaza, known as UNRWA, after an independent review found that Israel had not provided evidence of an allegation that led many donor nations to withdraw support for the agency.

The announcement was likely to cause further strain in Germany’s longstanding close ties with Israel, which have deteriorated because of differences over the war in Gaza.

Germany, which gave more than $200 million to UNRWA in 2023, is the agency’s second largest donor after the United States, which has also withdrawn its funding and has yet to say whether it will restore it.

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Dangerman Apr 24, 2024 • 9:48:32am

re: #173 danarchy

The concern is not about what you put on the app, or even what inane content the app algorithm is feeding to kids. It is about what information the app is collecting that you don’t know about or has the potential to collect even if it isn’t currently. The amount of access people grant random apps on their phones is terrifying(myself included). ByteDance is little more than an extension of the Chinese government. If the wrong person puts tiktok on the wrong phone and it grants access to image libraries, email content, contacts and whatever else the app requests on install it could absolutely be a national security issue.

I don’t remember seeing the kind of backlash when they indicated that they were going to ban Kaspersky Antivirus because Russia.

that’s kind of what i meant
you said it better

the campaign is gonna put on campaign ads. not much else.
hoping they’re smart enough to know how to do it safely

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wrenchwench Apr 24, 2024 • 9:49:00am

re: #175 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Secret Service prepares for if Trump is jailed for contempt in hush money case

abcnews.go.com

Better late than never. (It’s not a ‘hush money’ case.)

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Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 9:50:10am

re: #176 Nerdy Fish

Tangential to the religious aspect of your post, with which I agree wholeheartedly (as you know), but you just know the doctors the state will get on their payroll to review these decisions will “coincidentally” all agree that abortion is never a life-saving treatment, and that women who present with life-threatening complications to their pregnancies should just be left to die. And they don’t have to actually convict a doctor under the statute to achieve the intended effect; just bringing a court case, dragging it out as long as possible, and making an example out of them will do.

That’s the unspoken truth of these “exceptions”: The criteria to satisfy them is subjective and not objective, there are no clear requirements but instead a doctor gambling that the state will agree with them when the dust has settled and no guarantee that the state will decide to make an “example” out of them. Hence why hospital lawyers, whose jobs are dependent largely upon assuming the worst case scenarios and acting to avoid them, are the ones really saying “Don’t touch them, turn them away” when a pregnant patient shows up in the ER.

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Nerdy Fish Apr 24, 2024 • 9:50:17am

re: #179 wrenchwench

Better late than never. (It’s not a ‘hush money’ case.)

It still concerns me that the Secret Service was not already prepared for this eventuality. It’s not like there haven’t been ample signs that he was digging himself a hole that could eventually lead to prison.

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Decatur Deb Apr 24, 2024 • 9:50:25am

re: #172 BeenHereAwhile

Bomber Harris, “you bombed London” we bomb Würzburg (75 percent destroyed), followed by Dessau, Kassel, Mainz, and Hamburg. Over 70 percent of the largest cities had their urban core destroyed. Worst cases: Dresden, Cologne, Essen, Dortmund, Hanover, Nuremberg, & Chemnitz.

Ballad of Fine Days

All in the summery weather,
To east and south and north,
The bombers fly together
And the fighters squire them forth.

While the lilac bursts in flower
And buttercups brim with gold
Hour by lethal hour
Now fiercer buds unfold.

For the storms of springtime lessen,
The meadow lures the bee,
And there blooms tonight in Essen
What bloomed in Coventry

All in the summer weather,
Fleeter than swallows fare,
The bombers fly together
Through the innocent air.
— Phyllis McGinley

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Dangerman Apr 24, 2024 • 9:54:13am

re: #181 Nerdy Fish

It still concerns me that the Secret Service was not already prepared for this eventuality. It’s not like there haven’t been ample signs that he was digging himself a hole that could eventually lead to prison.

i am sure this was discussed a lot already.
heck everyone else has been talking about it for more than a year

maybe they were projecting the possibility after a verdict and appeals

they didnt think he’d keep shooting himself in the foot so quickly and repeatedly

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Apr 24, 2024 • 9:54:49am

re: #175 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

abcnews.go.com

Jeez, don’t get me so excited so early in the day. I’m tingling with anticipation!

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Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 9:58:51am

re: #183 Dangerman

I have no doubt it’s been discussed.

Personally, I’m still of the mind that if need be, ADX Florence would be a good place for an incarcerated Trump. Outside of that, I’m sure a defunct US military base could be brought up to snuff in relatively short order to house him for the duration of his sentence.

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danarchy Apr 24, 2024 • 10:00:50am

re: #178 Dangerman

that’s kind of what i meant
you said it better

the campaign is gonna put on campaign ads. not much else.
hoping they’re smart enough to know how to do it safely

Security is hard even for security experts. I don’t expect some 25 year old kid running a social media account to know how to do it safely. I mean, one of the things tiktok requests access to when you install it is the microphone, and while that is understandable since making videos is what tiktok is all about, if that kid is sitting in on campaign meetings with that device in his pocket it could absolutely be used to spy on the campaign.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Apr 24, 2024 • 10:02:57am

Spring is definitely here!

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danarchy Apr 24, 2024 • 10:03:09am

re: #185 Dr Lizardo

I have no doubt it’s been discussed.

Personally, I’m still of the mind that if need be, ADX Florence would be a good place for an incarcerated Trump. Outside of that, I’m sure a defunct US military base could be brought up to snuff in relatively short order to house him for the duration of his sentence.

I know a lot of folks are really invested in seeing Trump behind bars, but I don’t think this is going to be the case to do it. Even if he is convicted, he is a first time offender on a nonviolent crime, he will likely get probation, that is if he is actually being treated like any other defendant.

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Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 10:04:57am

re: #188 danarchy

I know a lot of folks are really invested in seeing Trump behind bars, but I don’t think this is going to be the case to do it. Even if he is convicted, he is a first time offender on a nonviolent crime, he will likely get probation, that is if he is actually being treated like any other defendant.

On the NY case, yeah, I doubt he’d get jail time. I was thinking of some of his other cases.

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Jay C Apr 24, 2024 • 10:05:35am

re: #173 danarchy

I don’t remember seeing the kind of backlash when they indicated that they were going to ban Kaspersky Antivirus because Russia.

I don’t recall that incident (clarification will be appreciated), but it doesn’t sound like it is quite the same as TikTok, which is:
1. Phenomenally popular.
2. Hugely widespread.
3. (most importantly) Monetizable (by users, not just its operators).

Just IMHO, I also think that the TikTok “ban” isn’t going to be a thing for quite a while yet: even given that year timeframe, I’m guessing that the divestment order is going to end up in one court or another, and linger there for (probably) years.

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Dangerman Apr 24, 2024 • 10:06:41am

Romney: I think everybody has made their own assessment of President Trump’s character, and so far as I know you don’t pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you. pic.twitter.com/7N9lu8pkww

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 23, 2024

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 24, 2024 • 10:10:12am

re: #191 Dangerman

Please don’t make me like Mitt Romney.

/ half

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Decatur Deb Apr 24, 2024 • 10:12:21am

re: #191 Dangerman

“I don’t pay them to come over, I pay them to leave.”

quoteinvestigator.com

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danarchy Apr 24, 2024 • 10:13:49am

re: #190 Jay C

I don’t recall that incident (clarification will be appreciated), but it doesn’t sound like it is quite the same as TikTok, which is:
1. Phenomenally popular.
2. Hugely widespread.
3. (most importantly) Monetizable (by users, not just its operators).

Just IMHO, I also think that the TikTok “ban” isn’t going to be a thing for quite a while yet: even given that year timeframe, I’m guessing that the divestment order is going to end up in one court or another, and linger there for (probably) years.

cnn.com

Obviously Kaspersky isn’t tiktok as far as popularity goes, but it is second in market share for AV. The question is, if it is really a national security threat, should popularity even play into the decision? As a matter of fact, the fact it is so widespread just makes it more of an issue.

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The Ghost of a Flea Apr 24, 2024 • 10:14:40am

re: #192 Eclectic Cyborg

Please don’t make me like Mitt Romney.

/ half

Hey remember when Romney lied about Benghazi and it was the precedent for like two-thirds of all future GOP perfidy?

He’s mad because Trump is a different, competing brand of liar and thief.

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Mike Lamb Apr 24, 2024 • 10:15:24am

re: #180 Targetpractice

That’s the unspoken truth of these “exceptions”: The criteria to satisfy them is subjective and not objective, there are no clear requirements but instead a doctor gambling that the state will agree with them when the dust has settled and no guarantee that the state will decide to make an “example” out of them. Hence why hospital lawyers, whose jobs are dependent largely upon assuming the worst case scenarios and acting to avoid them, are the ones really saying “Don’t touch them, turn them away” when a pregnant patient shows up in the ER.

And it isn’t gambling on a relatively level playing field. It’s gambling under conditions where the default position is you committed a crime. It’s playing some of the longest odds in the casino.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Apr 24, 2024 • 10:18:11am

re: #187 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Spring is definitely here!

[Embedded content]

Must be nice. I’m freezing my ass off. 😢

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 10:18:37am

re: #165 Teukka

Fried-chili sauce is the debil. Nom nom nom.

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 24, 2024 • 10:21:45am

TFG just put a series of posts on his shit site gloating about…polling higher than Joe Biden in deep red and red leaning states.

🙄

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Apr 24, 2024 • 10:23:45am

re: #189 Dr Lizardo

On the NY case, yeah, I doubt he’d get jail time. I was thinking of some of his other cases.

Perhaps not for a conviction but he may wind up behind bars for contempt.

I’d take that. The prick.

The case before loose Cannon… That’s jailable and for a very long time.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Apr 24, 2024 • 10:26:53am

re: #199 Eclectic Cyborg

TFG just put a series of posts on his shit site gloating about…polling higher than Joe Biden in deep red and red leaning states.

🙄

Congrats, dude. My momma loves me, too.

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goddamnedfrank Apr 24, 2024 • 10:28:32am

re: #195 The Ghost of a Flea

Hey remember when Romney lied about Benghazi and it was the precedent for like two-thirds of all future GOP perfidy?

He’s mad because Trump is a different, competing brand of liar and thief.

Romney is Frank Grimes to Trump’s Homer, just super upset because the rules don’t seem to apply to Trump.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 24, 2024 • 10:28:50am

rawstory.com

‘You’re not dumb, you’re insulting!’ Sparks fly on Fox News set over Trump ‘lies’

‘You’re insulting!’ Fox hosts argue over Biden and Trump gaffes

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Nojay UK Apr 24, 2024 • 10:36:48am

re: #172 BeenHereAwhile

Bomber Harris, “you bombed London” we bomb Würzburg (75 percent destroyed), followed by Dessau, Kassel, Mainz, and Hamburg. Over 70 percent of the largest cities had their urban core destroyed. Worst cases: Dresden, Cologne, Essen, Dortmund, Hanover, Nuremberg, & Chemnitz.

Estimates by historians say that towards the end of the war the Germans had a million troops allocated to flak batteries in and around the larger cities to defend them against strategic bombing. They had to divert a lot of munitions manufacturing from offensive weapons to making ammunition for the flak units which could expend as many as 250,000 shells in a single night. Without the strategic bombing effort by the Allies those soldiers and munitions could have been used to fight the troops invading Occupied France and Germany.

As for Dresden, it was a major railway hub like most big German cities and a lot of military personnel and materiel were being routed through the city towards the Eastern Front. Bombing it into rubble blocked that route, the firestorm was an extra bonus.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Apr 24, 2024 • 10:41:46am

re: #204 Nojay UK

As for Dresden, it was a major railway hub like most big German cities and a lot of military personnel and materiel were being routed through the city towards the Eastern Front. Bombing it into rubble blocked that route, the firestorm was an extra bonus.

And don’t get going about Japan. Had the Allies been forced to invade, it would have wound up looking like Vietnam on Steroids, with no disction drawn between soldiers and noncombattants and casualties in the millions on both sides.

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Decatur Deb Apr 24, 2024 • 10:44:20am

How many days of prolonged warfare was it worth to save a venerable German city? Now run that factor against the daily production numbers from the death camps.

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Dr Lizardo Apr 24, 2024 • 10:52:50am

re: #204 Nojay UK

A lot of German soldiers would’ve been transferred to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. To this day, there’s still a direct link from Prague to Dresden. Runs about three times a day.

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Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 10:56:45am

re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And don’t get going about Japan. Had the Allies been forced to invade, it would have wound up looking like Vietnam on Steroids, with no disction drawn between soldiers and noncombattants and casualties in the millions on both sides.

The image of housewives and school kids charging machine guns with sharpened sticks. Old men expected to take down tanks with “anti-tank” weapons that consisted of little more than a stand-off mine on the end of a stick. “Sweep and clear” missions in schools and hospitals.

And if you think that’s horrific, imagine what would be going on in the North when the Soviets (eventually) made landfall. Dropping arty on buildings instead of spending time and manpower to clear them. Meeting human waves with tanks and flamethrowers. And we already know from their behavior in Berlin how they treat any persons of the fairer sex they manage to take prisoner.

If you ever listen to interviews with Japanese folks from the time period immediately post-war, it absolutely amazed them that after years of brutality and horrors visited upon their would-be subjects, their countrymen were met with such pity and support from the American occupiers that the country was largely rebuilt within a decade.

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jaunte Apr 24, 2024 • 10:57:54am

re: #203 Joe Bacon ✅

News from Earth2. They’re trying so hard to paint Biden with the liar brush Trump has used as his entire personality.

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Targetpractice Apr 24, 2024 • 11:00:49am

re: #210 jaunte

New from Earth2. They’re trying so hard to paint Biden with the liar brush Trump has used as his entire personality.

They moan about how nobody but them seems to give a damn about Biden mixing up words anymore, totally ignorant of the reality that nobody gives a shit when his opponent is on criminal trial with a very real possibility of being convicted before summer.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Apr 24, 2024 • 11:09:29am

re: #211 Targetpractice

They moan about how nobody but them seems to give a damn about Biden mixing up words anymore, totally ignorant of the reality that nobody gives a shit when his opponent is on criminal trial with a very real possibility of being convicted before summer.

But just in trial but every time trump opens his yap, the weirdest shit comes out and people are starting to notice.

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Lancelot Link Returns! Apr 24, 2024 • 11:15:33am

re: #64 Dr Lizardo

Well, Denis Villeneuve’s next project is supposed to be Rendezvous with Rama, which is pretty cerebral sci-fi. Not too many ways to turn that one into a CGI action spectacular along the lines of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

Worth noting that Dune and Godzilla vs Kong are from the same production company (their only releases this year)

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sagehen Apr 24, 2024 • 12:59:14pm

re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And don’t get going about Japan. Had the Allies been forced to invade, it would have wound up looking like Vietnam on Steroids, with no disction drawn between soldiers and noncombattants and casualties in the millions on both sides.

That’s not even counting how many civilians the Japanese army was killing on a daily basis in China, Korea, Indonesia, etc. Unconditional surrender, and the emperor recalling those troops, put a stop to that.

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